[Updates to this file take the form of appended text, rather than edits to the existing text.] Why have I switched from using rodents.montreal.qc.ca to rodents-montreal.org? That takes a little explanation. CIRA, the body that administers the .CA domain, has chosen to make an SSL-capable Web browser a requirement for .CA domain holders. (They shied away from putting it that baldly, but when I spoke with their customer-service rep, all the suggestions she offered were alternative ways for me to find an SSL-capable Web browser, not ways to avoid using one. Quacks like a duck, waddles like a duck....) They probably actually did this quite some time ago and this just happens to be the first time I ran up against it. At any rate, I consider that requirement unreasonable and unacceptable. They have also chosen to break their WHOIS interface, not returning contact information for .CA domains registered by individuals. While individual domain holders are allowed to reverse this bustification for their own domain(s), doing so requires (you guessed it) an SSL-capable Web browser. While I don't yet have the code written to do so, I will soon be rejecting all mail from .CA domains for which the WHOIS information is thus broken. And, if I do this, I cannot in good conscience continue to use my own domain - which is similarly afflicted and which CIRA demands I use an specific protocol I neither have nor want support for to fix, even though there are numerous other equally technically suitable alternatives available. I managed to find a .org registrar who was willing to not require I use a Web interface (well, as far as my own border is concerned; it looks to me as though there is something Web backing it, but the Web part is entirely within their systems; the interface at my border is ssh). I'm not actively breaking rodents.montreal.qc.ca, in the interests of a non-disruptive transition. However, until the above issues are fixed, I will not be using it (at least not once I complete the switch to rodents-montreal.org - possibly except for occasional testing). der Mouse formerly mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca now using mouse@rodents-montreal.org The above text was written June 2008. It is now January 2010. The mailer code mentioned above works and has been live in my mailer for some little while now. Update, 2011-12-11: rodents.montreal.qc.ca is now unbroken, though not through my actions, at least not directly; I mentioned it to my registrar, and he apparently got it fixed. (I decided to renew, even though it constitutes support of a broken system, both in the hope .ca will wise up and because my ssh implementation uses lots of @rodents.montreal.qc.ca private extensions, so if the cost isn't too high I'd kinda like to keep the domain even if I don't use it for anything else.) It's actually possible CIRA reversed their stance, though I consider that unlikely enough I haven't gone looking for an individual-registrant domain of someone else's to check. If you think they have, please let me know! Update, 2023-01-25: rodents.montreal.qc.ca no longer exists. For reasons not directly related to this note, I lost the domain, and CIRA's policies have changed such that I cannot now reregister it (though they were willing to grandfather it as long as I held it). Thus, the whole issue is now close to irrelevant in practice.