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You may have noticed that strange link to Jabba's Trashcan. As you certainly have guessed, Jabba is a spam trap. I set it up last Thursday. The address was published in two ways: First, it's included on that ugly web page, as a mailto link. Second, I went to the "remove" forms of some spams I regularly get, and entered Jabba's address. Guess what, the first real spam to that address arrived on Saturday. Quite frankly, I knew things are bad, but this is really faster than I expected.

Bret Fausett, who is a member of the Names Policy Development Process Advisory Group, has posted some comments on that group's current work.

During today's WHOIS task force conference call, an interesting proposal from GNR on modifying access to the .name WHOIS database was discussed. The proposal attempts to take .name's character as a TLD targeted at individual registrants into account. A brief summary of the proposal is available from the nc-whois list archive. There is also an MP3 recording of the telephone conference.

second-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously, second-system syndrome) When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity.

(The Jargon File 4.0.0.)