Re: [ga] chaos and confusion on this mailing list

["Simon Schuster" <significants@xxxxxxxxx>]

 > Well, let's hope you don't have too many of those... illegal pen-names, I
> mean, not the books... But hey man, pornography is legal and socially
> accepted these days so you can ditch the trenchcoat, you know. ;-)

they're pornography only in the sense that they're useless
masturbation exercises. :)

>
> >
> > I found it about a year ago, and I think my interest must have
> > sprouted out of my starting to study modern hebrew, and thinking up a
> > couple TLDs I would really like instead of Χ§Χ�Χ� and
> Χ�Χ¨Χ� and Χ Χ� or
> > however they'd do com, net, and org respectively.
>
> As a student of Hebrew, I'm sure you'll agree that it's just as
> interesting and important that we have Greek suffixes for TLDs as well?
> I'm kind of partial to .αγορά .δίκτυο .ίδρυμα respectively which
> correspond in like kind to .com .net .org.

of course I agree that Greek suffixes for TLDs are important, but why
even bother with com/net/org correspondence?

> >I believe that they
> > are flattened, and 1. I would like there to be international TLDs, and
> > 2. I would like the TLDs to be culturally/linguistically significants.
> > for instance, the one idea I can remember coming up for hebrew TLD is
> > Χ(c)Χ�Χ� which is the conjugated preposition "of", in the me
> form... so
> > basically .mine :)
> Χ�Χ�Χ�Χ�Χ�Χ�.Χ(c)Χ�Χ�
>
> And I too would like to see any number of culturally significant Greek
> TLDs, especially .έρως .αγάπη... or erotic and platonic/familial love
> respectively.  :)

yes, culturally significant $LANG TLDs is very important. I don't know
the language, but a more pertinent issue here is how will the TLDs be
determined? and by who? not that it's a stressful issue, it could be a
really fun issue.... A CONTEST maybe! :D with the general public to
vote. gets the general public interested in the issue in the same
blow.


>
> Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> Chair
>
>