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.au's Reclusive Administrator Elz Deposed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rug-out-from-under dept.

Disco Stu writes: "The Sydney Morning Herald has the following story: 'The reclusive programmer Mr Robert Elz has lost control of Australia's domain name system to a private-sector body after the Federal Government rejected his request for the Government to take over the custodianship instead.' I've had to wait months for this guy to get around to approving domains in the past ... but I still can't decide if this is good or not." Sounds bad to me -- or at least Elz sounds good, principled and unconventional.

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  1. Troll mod check by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Check check yeah this is a troll mod check testing troll mod check yeah trol mod check. Mods active? Mod react time? Mod lameness?

  2. Ok waaaaaiiiiting for mod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah mod delay yaeh waiting for mod or bot to come along yeah waiting got a delay here. Mod react time continues.

  3. Still waiting for mod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Mod hasn't done shit yet. Maybe the mods are "down" yeah. Mods don't have very good uptime only about 18 hours tops.

  4. No mods! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Continue the troll power yeah! Trolls geting ahead of silly mods. Use them mod points yeah. There are only so many mod points to go around.

  5. The power of a flood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Crap floods in like a never ending tide of shit washing over Slashdot drowning the stupid mods.

  6. Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Troll power continues. You think you can defeat troll power. heh forget it trolls are here to stay. Yeah watch those mod points fly out the window like a fuck yeah

    1. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Quick an easy troll. This troll was brought to you by the TRoll FounDatIon and Corporation for Public Trolling.

    2. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey a reaction. That took a while looks like at least one mod is still alive. Hey mod, yeah you yeah you fucking mod yeah I am down hear. Don't you want to mod me. I am way down hear just waiting for ya. Yeah mod com on down.

    3. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey mod did you use up your only mod point or what? What the hell what are you waiting for. What? I didn't here ya mod. What? You say you are tired and you are going to sleep. What? You say you have given up all hope of trying to mod all this crap don? What?

    4. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey mods where are ya. I am just sitting here waiting for ya. Whats the matter you not interested in modding the shit out people any more. Huh? What? What?

    5. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Trolling along again just waiting for the stupid ass mods to come along. Looks like they aren't up to the task. Mods just can't keep up with this shit can they. Yah know they whole Ip number thing is a big load of crap anyway. People change and IP's change eat this crap mods yeah eat it!

    6. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey mods. I just past 10 posts and I am still here. Looks like Taco's shit ain't working. Still at the same IP for the moment but that could change at any time.

    7. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Hey better watch out. I am getting pretty far over here. Even at 0 this is pretty far. It is getting close. Yeah getting real close now.

    8. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Getting pretty close now. Just a little bit farther. Yeah just a few more posts and viewing at 0 will become very interesting. Yeah even better at -1. Hey mods. Any of you still alive out there or are you just stupid or something.

    9. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Gotta keep going. Gotta stay ahead of the stupid mods. Hey where are they at anyway? Well still getting closer. Very close now oh yeah.

    10. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      The tollinator never stopping. He just keeps coming until his misssion objective is achieved.

    11. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I am soooo close now I can taste it. Look at how close this is. Real soon now. Yeah this will get that bottom scoll bar going. You gotta just love that bottom scroll bar in the web browser for real waid pages. Yeah.

    12. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Finally got the scroll bar at least at -1 and after this it will be there at 0 at well. Looks like the mods are all gone right now or maybe the world's supply of mod points just ran out.

    13. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Ok just two or three more trolls and I will be satisfied. Yeah this ought to keep the damn mods busy for a while. Wake up in a few hours and look and the nice suprise you will have waiting for ya. Yeah you got some work to do now.

    14. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yeah look at how messed up the layout gets when you get it threaded out this far. Really screws up Slashdot pretty good. You know I thought that this threading problem was dealt with. Looks like the new Slapcode has more bugs in it than Florida.

    15. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Now at some point the page just doens't get any wider I thought but I got to check it out to make sure. This is getting pretty wide right now. Should max out here anytime.

    16. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Still widing pretty cool huh. Well lets just see how wide wide can get here. Get wider yeah that's it. Really wide web pages are just great. Give that bottom scroll bar a chance to show up there.

    17. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      One more time lets see how wide this thing will go huh? Looks like the mods still aren't anywhere to be seen. Oh well. Another troll or two and I will be finishing up. Stupid 2 minute limit. If it wasn't for that I would have been done a long time ago.

    18. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Boy this just keeps indenting even farther then I rememeber it going. Well I guess I am now finished. Now what the hell was that!

    19. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Ya know this is still going. It shouldn't take to much longer now.

    20. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Boy this page layout is really starting to make Slashot look really screwed up. What is that like bug number 159363 in the slashcode. I mean come on how much longer can this go on like this.

    21. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Got to keep going. Maybe the page will go as large as twice the normal size. That would make things look pretty interesting. Hey mods you still out there. I am pretty far ahead of you now.

    22. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      At long last I have reached the upper limit of the slashdot threading system. Well I don't know what happened to all the stupid mods out there but maybe they will be along later. I just wonder how many mod points are left out there.

    23. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Ooops I guess I was wrong about that upper limit well it looks like I am not done yet. Just a few more times should do the trick. Just a bit more.

    24. Re:Troll power by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Heh that was a new one the 30 comment in 4 hours limit and look at what good it did ya Taco.

  7. I don't see how this matters by The+Ultimate+Badass · · Score: 0, Troll

    Even austrians have come to despise the .au domain. No self-respecting web host is willing to deal with sites in that domain, and this has been reflected in the unwillingness of users visit .au sites. I, for instance, have never visited that domain.

    Everybody knows that austrian culture is decadent and decaying, like all european countries.

    Austrians are just wannabe germans who can't get it together to build a decent car, and buckled under when Hitler sneezed in their direction. I don't care what happens to their pathetic domain, and neither should you.

    --

    Denial isn't just a river in Italy

  8. Just a few more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A few more should do the trick this is getting pretty wide now. Maybe Taco made it so this can go to an unlimited width. Wouldn't that be something.

    1. Re:Just a few more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Now it looks like I am at the upper limit but I had better post a few more times just to be sure. It faked me out there a while back. I must have screwed something up.

    2. Re:Just a few more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Ok I guess I have had enough. I think I have made my point. SLashdot really needs to fix this so the threading limit is reached way sooner than it is now. I mean unless ya really like really wide web pages that are twice as wide as they should be.

    3. Re:Just a few more by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Ok just one final troll to make sure this thing isn't going to start indenting again. I think it is though with that now.