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Re: [icann-europe] Re: [ecdiscuss] Re: [icann-europe] European RootServer System

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 17:56 [=GMT+0200], Florian Weimer wrote:
> Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org> writes:
> > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, at 13:56 [=GMT+0100], Steve Dyer wrote:
> >
> >> And let's not encourage those who try to profit from destabilising an 
> >> Internet that works pretty well at present.
> >
> > Who are they? I am curious.
> 
> New.net and its ISP partners (Tiscali, EarthLink, Prodigy, NetZero,
> Juno, Tutopia, but also Oleco and 3cnet).

New.net, of which I am no fan, does not profit _from_
destabilising. In fact they would make a lot more profit, if they
could succeed in getting their TLDs included in the ICANN root.

> In addition, New.net DNS is activated automatically on Windows
> machines if you install certain Windows programs (BearShare, KaZaA,
> iMesh, grokster, and probably others).

I think KaZaA, the only program of those you mention that I've tried, 
asks you whether you want this or not.


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