found Prowl discussion in another google group

[els]

from http://groups.google.com/group/newbux/browse_thread/thread/4b8774c27948e147?hl=en.

Excerpt:

As far as I can see (and in tech issues that isn't very far) I agree
with
Guillaume - that prowl does seem to support open money. But the
restriction
to web publishing is an unfortunate limitation, and may render this
peripheral or even off the map for open money development.


It seems like the old familiar mindset - "I have a hammer, so it's all
about
nails". In a recent
post<http://openmoney.ning.com/forum/topics/prowl-for-
publishingreporting?...>on
the
openmoney.ning.com site, Edgar Sioson (of prowl) wrote -


"I have read a lot of the openmoney material on the web, and to be
honest,
it was only recently that I might have understood what you meant by
"browsing" open money accounts in another discussion thread. It almost
seems
like you are trying to develop an alternate domain naming system
solely for
locating and viewing open money accounts. I'm not entirely clear on
what the
advantages are of mapping something to "zippy.cc.us.ny" when
conventional
domains such as "zippy.nycc.org" or "nycc.org/zippy" could already be
located and viewed using standard browsers. Perhaps there are some
architectural issues regarding domain names that I am not seeing?"


Indeed so. I wonder if he had started working on these ideas in AOL,
Second
Life or Facebook whether he would similarly be supposing that space
was
world enough? The idea that a virtual money space can exist beyond
the
internet seems outside the perceptual range of many a geek.


Further, looking through the prowl forum, I find frequent evidence
that many
who are active there are not at as clear about money as they need be
to be
useful.


Nonetheless, it seems sensible to continue exploring the overlaps.
However,
I think Eric Harris-Braun, Geoff Chesshire and Hugh Barnard (all cc)
may be
best placed to explain to the prowl world that there are more things
in
heaven and earth than are dreamt of in their web browser philosophy.
And
perhaps apply some of their ideas?


cheers, m

[Joe Edelman]

Perhaps he doesn't realize that DNS can point to things besides web
servers. It does seem like his tone is rather condescending.

--Joe

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