Re: Notice to Mariners: loss of navigational aids ("whois consultations")

Eric did not suggest trying to educate those folks.

He noted that we have a ready market for our work and that that market is 
clearly not going to satisfy their requirement on their own.

It's OUR opportunity.

d/


At 09:57 AM 9/2/2001, Randy Bush wrote:
> > the technical complexity of a data base with 270+ physically disjoint
> > authoritative views and schemas supporting a useful single access
> > mechanism, having consistency semantics, and being correct, appears to
> > me to be under-appreciated, particularly in the venue mentioned above.
>
>convincing folk of the difficulty and inadvisability of their political
>ambitions is usually futile and extremely frustrating.  sometimes, it is
>best to let them learn what they can from experience.  this could be one
>of those times.

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