As for Noss (and Rader) of Tucows, they're from Toronto's environs which to the rest of us Canucks equates to a bunch of scammers who pretend (and yearn) to be part of the US, AKA wannabees. Not like the olden days when I used TuCows as one of the first software download depositories online, now they're just more money grubbers, let's call them suppositories.

And you're right Dan, these offtopic offtarget postings are mostly the work of one person, Jim Fleming, a nutbar, fruitcake, netkook extraordinaire. There are so many contenders for that title, you'd think there's a monetary award for the winner. Jim is still in the running. -g

Frank will be working purely by himself in his home town of Ottawa, although he is soon moving to the West coast of Canada to be in the same timezone as ICANN's headquarters in Marina del Ray [SIC]

I don't know what you have against bilingualism other than that some Americans speak Spanish without official sanction. Switzerland is trilingual and when is the last time they invaded anyone (even under the terms of international law)? Oh, I forgot, according to you ICANN is controlled by the gnomes of Geneva.

BTW, Canada does make cars. Most of the major brands have factories here. With apologies to Michael Moore, most US car manufacturers are here, in Mexico, in China, in.... I was a mechanic many years ago and still fix about as many friends' and relatives' autos as I do their computers. The trick is that cars are classified as domestic if some or all of the parts come from elsewhere and are put together in the good ol' USA. An automobile (like the DNS) is made up of parts [www.apma.ca], and no-one, not even you armed to the teeth Americans, can own all the parts. It's called globalization, look into it. Oh, and please (re-)adjust your meds. -g