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Paul Vixie is an American computer scientist whose technical contributions include Domain Name System (DNS) 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.

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Also known as: Vixie, Paul

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

NANOG mailing list (2004)

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

NANOG mailing list (2000)

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.

IETF/namedroppers mailing list (2001)

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

The Internet is not for sissies.

ba.internet (1994)

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

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.

NANOG mailing list (2002)

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.

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

NANOG mailing list (2004)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul Vixie (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.