[13401] in APO-L
Re: National Disclaimer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug McLaren)
Wed Dec 13 11:07:17 1995
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 10:06:59 -0600
Reply-To: Doug McLaren <dougmc@COMCO.COM>
From: Doug McLaren <dougmc@COMCO.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199512122248.QAA19792@titan.comco.com> from "Randy Finder" at
Dec 12, 95 05:44:25 pm
Randy Finder was tellin' me ...
| I think www.apo.org is probably less than a year away. The national
| office seems to be getting more secure with email, but I think their
| external connection for reading email is still a dialup line to AOL.
Yes, apo.org does not appear to be registered.
If the national office thinks it may wish to put something up under
apo.org in the future, they should register it *now*, even if they
don't plan on using it yet (I can provide them with DNS service until
apo.org really goes online if they really need it, as I believe you
need DNS service to register a domain, even if there aren't any
machines to go into it yet.) It will be far easier to register it now
than to try and take it away from somebody else who may register it in
the future.
Of course, if apo.org were taken, they could always try a-phi-o.org or
something like that, but apo.org is the obvious choice.
There's no real reason why www.apo.org couldn't exist far sooner than
a year, except for the national office not wanting it to exist. It
shouldn't even be hard to find somebody willing to host it on their
virtual web server (a single machine that does web service for many
domains) for free.
...
| apo.org is currently available, the biggest problem may be that the
| people who give out domains now require that if you sign up for a domain
| and someone challanges whether you have the right to take that domain,
| you have to fight it legally, not the poeple who give out domains.
| However about 20 social greeks and a couple of honoraries have already
| gone there.
I think Alpha Phi Omega has a pretty good reason to want to use
apo.org. Of course, if there's some other organization out there with
the initals A P and O, they would have as much right to it as Alpha
Phi Omega. In those cases, it typically appears to be first come,
first serve.
Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. I don't really like lawyers (well, I
don't like what they're used for in many cases), or those who use
lawyers to bully other people :)
(In case anybody's asking who this `Doug McLaren' bozo is, I'm an
Alpha Rho (University of Texas at Austin) alumni, have been out of
touch of things for a bit, but am kind of working on fixing that.)
