I don't think it was missed at all.
I read the reply asking whether other sites could be redirected for 
money as being sarcastic remarks used to make a point against Telstra's 
dubious behaviour. Not suggestions that this would be a good business model.

Did I miss a huge chunk of posts?

Trent

David Goldstein wrote:

>Isn't something being missed in this thread? It
>doesn't alter the issue of the ethics of the
>redirection and whether it is justified, but isn't
>this case 'special' because Telstra are involved in
>the website itself?
>
>So the issue of getting Telstra to do a redirection
>for any other website is not going to happen, as they
>have no interest in your website.
>
>The relevant part of the story in the Oz is:
>"The ad campaign was meant to be a triumph for
>Telstra, which paid $3million to sponsor Idol and
>release the song online exclusively."
>
>So any issue that deals with the decision being family
>friendly and any other crap is not relevant.
>
>David
>
>--- magic2147§optushome.com.au wrote: 
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>
>>On 24 Nov 2004 at 10:43, Paul Foxworthy wrote:
>>
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>>>If anyone in Australia happens to run an ad that
>>>      
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>>mistakenly has a .com
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>>>instead of a .com.au, will BigPond commit to
>>>      
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>>changing their DNS to "fix"
>>    
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>>>the problem? If not, what's so special about this
>>>      
>>>
>>case?
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>>>If anyone finds two sites blah.com.au and
>>>      
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>>blah.com, where the .com site
>>    
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>>>has content that not everyone might like, will
>>>      
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>>BigPond commit to changing
>>    
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>>>their DNS to "fix" the problem? If not, what's so
>>>      
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>>special about this case?
>>    
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>>>Can I get Bigpond to redirect visitors looking for
>>>      
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>>blah.com to my own
>>    
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>>>blah.com.au by *claiming* that blah.com has
>>>      
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>>objectionable content?
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>>>Given BigPond's obvious concern about the issue,
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>>are they encouraging
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>>>other ISPs to take similar action?
>>>
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>>I am sure that Stephen Mayne from Crikey would be
>>delighted to get such service. Sloppy, 
>>lazy media types (I know that it's  tautological)
>>are always rendering the site as "crikey.com" 
>>rather than crikey.com.au. People who visit
>>"crikey.com" are  confronted by a "this domain is 
>>for sale" site playing off the online news service
>>and Steve whatsisname.
>>
>>I am sure that even as I wirite Ziggy and the good
>>folks at Sensis are looking at ways to 
>>deliver more traffic to .com.au sites that share the
>>same "prefix" as .com domains - and 
>>charge for the privilege. In fact thinking about it
>>you should be able to demand that requests 
>>for any gTLD site be directed to a .au domain. auDA
>>could  be commissioned to auction the 
>>repointing rights off. I am sure that this would be
>>seen as family friendly and would be 
>>endorsed by both Family First and the Federal
>>Government.  And the great unwashed would 
>>never need to know that the internet is indeed world
>>wide.
>>
>>
>>cb
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