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Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System protocol design and procedure, mechanisms to achieve operational robustness of DNS implementations, and significant contributions to open source software principles and methodology. He also created and launched the first successful commercial anti-spam service. He authored the standard UNIX system programs SENDS, proxynet, rtty and Vixie cron. At one point he ran his own consulting business, Vixie Enterprises. Wikipedia  

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“I've been lawsuit-threated [sic] by experts, and i can tell you from that experience, dv8 appears to not be an expert.”

Paul Vixie

IETF mailing list archive http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg30614.html

“You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?”

Paul Vixie

NANOG mailing list http://www.mail-archive.com/nanog@merit.edu/msg21718.html (2004)

“Note that I hold the single-author record for total CERT advisories, proving that in my copious youth I knew how to sling code but not how to manage risk.”

Paul Vixie

NANOG mailing list http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2002-02/msg00482.html (2002) <br class="br">Notes: talking about software security bugs.

“The Internet is not for sissies.”

Paul Vixie

ba.internet http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=VIXIE.94Sep26163002%40gw.home.vix.com (1994) <br class="br">Notes: in a reply to a luser.

“personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.”

Paul Vixie

NANOG mailing list http://www.mail-archive.com/nanog@merit.edu/msg24986.html (2004) <br class="br">Notes: about Sender Policy Framework

Paul Vixie Quotes

“With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.”

Paul Vixie

NANOG mailing list http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2006-01/msg00593.html

“Isc remains deeply apologetic that prior versions of BIND did not properly catch the configuration error that you appear to have built your business on.”

Paul Vixie

IETF/namedroppers mailing list http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2001/msg00041.html (2001)

“Usually they finish by whining «but I WANT it!!! and so, I tell them: «So what? Everybody wants something. I want a pony. Get over it.”

Paul Vixie

CircleID article http://www.circleid.com/posts/putting_multiple_root_nameserver_issue_to_rest/ <br class="br">Notes: referring to proponents of multiple DNS roots.

“Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed.”

Paul Vixie

NANOG mailing list http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-06/msg00351.html (2000)

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