Larry,

Well I'll be damned, where has your advertising gone?

I would hope that you would be brave enough to explain why this has
happened. I am sure Mr. Joshua Rowe would also like to see if you are as
brave as he was.

In your email below you state that in regards to NetRegistry hosting the
AUNIC database:

1. NetRegistry takes its community responsibility in hosting this key
component of Australia's Internet infrastructure very seriously.

So why has this "key component" abandoned the NR empire?

2. NetRegistry under no circumstances sends spam to AUNIC entrants. Our bulk
email direct marketing is restricted solely to our customers who have
provided their information to us voluntarily for the purposes of customer
relationship management.

Interesting, but then again if I was hosting the aunic database with
Napoleon whispering in my ear I would think that all aunic database
entries were my clients.

So why has auDa abandoned the NR emperor?

How tall was Napoleon wanyway? I hear he was 5"7' hard working with curly
hair?

3. NetRegistry advertises on the AUNIC website under a contract agreed to by
auDA and this is our sole commercial benefit for providing this service to
auDA for nothing (including bandwidth, equipment and support).

Your sole commercial benefit? So why again has the advertising vanished?

Can someone tell me whats going on?

Harry


-----Original Message-----
From: larry§netregistry.au.com [mailto:larry§netregistry.au.com]
Sent: Friday, 17 August 2001 1:06 PM
To: Dns§Auda. Org. Au
Subject: [DNS] Public soap boxing, Australia Post, NetRegistry and AUNIC


All,

Comments have been made on this list accusing NetRegistry of spamming the
AUNIC database. They are completely inaccurate and a mistake on the part of
Joshua Rowe.

I would hope that he would be brave enough to apologise for his damaging
remarks.

That notwithstanding, NetRegistry hosts the AUNIC database, and this has
become the subject of some suspicion. For the record:

1. NetRegistry takes its community responsibility in hosting this key
component of Australia's Internet infrastructure very seriously.
2. NetRegistry under no circumstances sends spam to AUNIC entrants. Our bulk
email direct marketing is restricted solely to our customers who have
provided their information to us voluntarily for the purposes of customer
relationship management.
3. NetRegistry advertises on the AUNIC website under a contract agreed to by
auDA and this is our sole commercial benefit for providing this service to
auDA for nothing (including bandwidth, equipment and support).
4. Like many companies, NetRegistry does undertake telemarketing, and
publicly available whois information is sometimes used for this purposes -
for example to get contact details for a website a telemarketer may be
viewing. This I consider acceptable use.
5. In future, all list members should understand that comments made on this
list that fall under defamation or libel legislation are actionable. This
(although I am not a lawyer) would seem to include replying to a message
with a defamatory subject line.

Lastly, I have never understood why people on email lists seem so keen to
sling mud around. The notion of common courtesy seems to take a leave of
absence when the Internet is involved. Perhaps that's part of the reason the
bubble came and went. Contentious issues are best dealt with directly
between protagonists without resort to public soap boxing.


Regards

Larry Bloch
Chief Executive Officer
____________________________________________
NetRegistry     http://www.netregistry.au.com
Tel: +61 2 9699 6099 | Fax: +61 2 9699 6088
PO Box 270 Broadway NSW   2007 Australia


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