RE: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Technical issues encountered by a k 12 site

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

This is good input, Brian.  Thanks.

-Scott-

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian F. Angus [mailto:brian.angus@netrus.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 4:18 PM
> To: Damaged Industries; sitefinder-tech-discuss@lists.elistx.com
> Subject: RE: [sitefinder-tech-discuss] Technical issues 
> encountered by a k12 site
> 
> 
> > 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