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Sender Address Verification: Still a Bad Idea

• Comment posted Apr 10, 2008 6:34 pm PDT — by Tom Lowenhaupt
  John, Perhaps you might advise. A quick review of recent bounced emails show the following messages: - 550 5.1.1 - Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4) - 550 relay not permitted - 554 5.7.1 <help@openplans.org>:…

Local ".city" TLDs as an Opportunity for City Portals

• Comment posted Oct 05, 2007 4:10 pm PDT — by Tom Lowenhaupt
  A wise man once said: When you have a problem and there is the normal textbook way of solving the problem, but one can also devise their own way and use that which might not be directly a nice way…

New Paper Discusses Global City TLD's in the Public Interest

• Comment posted Aug 31, 2007 10:16 pm PDT — by Tom Lowenhaupt
  pH, As far as domain names are concerned, you're correct; there are oodles of good names out there. But my support for city-TLDs didn’t start as a quest for domain names. It began in the late 1990’s with the realization…

• Comment posted Aug 25, 2007 2:20 pm PDT — by Tom Lowenhaupt
  Steve, You said, >Steve "The paper goes on at length about the need for those in the top 50 "global cities" to be able to find Internet resources local to them, but seems to include an implicit assumption that those…

• Comment posted Aug 25, 2007 1:54 pm PDT — by Tom Lowenhaupt
  .pH, You said, .pH> "I simply do not see gcTLD as addressing or resolving any issue with the growning internet and is another formulary devised as something that is not really wanted. Has that been addressed? The "wanted" part of…

• Comment posted Aug 24, 2007 3:57 pm PDT — by Tom Lowenhaupt
  .pH said: "Tom, I appreciate the foresightedness of this article. However, I do not see this as a logical solution..." ------------------------------------------ .pH, Thanks for your detailed thoughts. (I remain a bit unclear as to any specific points of disagreement you…

• Comment posted Aug 24, 2007 3:44 am PDT — by Tom Lowenhaupt
  Thanks Suresh for pointing out that this is a minor matter. Sometimes people react so harshly when they learn that city-TLDs will not solve all the planet's problems that they disregard all the benefits in a baby & bathwater reaction.…