RE: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Technical issues encountered by a k12 site

["Brian F. Angus" <brian.angus@netrus.com>]

> Also as mentioned before, the fact that Mark McLaughlin told so many bent
> truths (lies) about ICANN shutting down Sitefinder when in reality they
> only asked them to remove the WILDCARDS, makes one beleive that Verisign
> is up to no good, and that no good can come out of anything you guys do.
 
F.Y.I.
 
As I mentioned in my note to this forum earlier this morning, Sitefinder has
not been shut down and is continuing to work even better than ever.  One
simply has to choose to use it rather than it being forced.  I actually don't
mind Sitefinder (that much) and am continuing to use it even now.  It is
Verisign's method of implementation that is severely broken.
 
If Verisign wants to make it easier to use and more pallatable to the
community; then, they should begin discussions with the browser makers
as soon as possible in order to have their service listed. The IE mechanism
is actually quite well done, not requiring any software updates to be pushed
to the clients.  The search engine selection list is dynamically picked up
from the Autosearch HUB server.
 
Further discussion of re-introducing the wildcards seems a mostly academic
excercise since I cannot believe there is any hope of gaining any acceptable
degree of concensus.  - My opinion
 
Any comments?
 
Brian