[101750] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operator Groups Outside the US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Thu Jan 17 04:57:24 2008
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:51:14 -0500
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: Rod Beck <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <478DF89B.3080008@spaghetti.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Rod Beck wrote:
>I am also disappointed to see the
>Canadians and Irish have next to nothing despite Ireland being the
>European base of operations for Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Yahoo.
the Canadians tend to keep things quiet, as all their good ideas are taken
by the Americans (ie. light bulb and basketball)
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