Peter Hansen wrote: > Jack Diederich wrote: > >>The '.info' domain also defeats >>the linux 'whois' command to dig for registrar info. > > > Maybe so, but it's always pretty easy to Google for "whois" plus the > domain to find a way of doing it via the web, in this case with > http://www.afilias.info/cgi-bin/whois.cgi . > > (It's registered to something called the Institute of Pamela, which > seems to stand for "Peaceful Alliances facilitated by Multilingual, > multiracial Education, handicapable outreach and native Language > Accessibility". I think this thing really exists, making this spam and > not just a farce.)
It is not spam, it is actually on-topic for the Python list. If you read through the message, you will see: "Below are a few of the different groups that you can look forward to seeing at the Grassroots Exhibition: (Listed in Alphabetical order) ... Opensource Technology Activist or user Punk Music and Art Python/computer activists ... Wicca Activists" Presumably the last-mentioned group writes code exclusively in hexadecimal. One has to admire their goal (a world beyond capitalism), but given the state of things in this post-end-of-history (as Francis Fukuyama put it with an ugly flourish of triumphalism) world, I can't help thinking that the Wicca activists are their best bet... Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
