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Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Rickard)
Fri Jun 27 16:51:32 1997

From: "Jack Rickard" <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>
To: "Ben Black" <black@zen.cypher.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 12:49:55 -0600

I'm not a marketing droid.  But only a moron would think that overall
performance would NOT affect the download of a web page, which is
essentially what you are attempting to say.

There are certainly other ways to do it.  Approximately Internet User
Population raised to Internet User Population worth.

Jack RIckard

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> From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
> To: Craig A. Huegen <c-huegen@quadrunner.com>
> Cc: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>; Peter Cole
<Peter.Cole@telescan.com>; nanog@merit.edu; marketing@keynote.com
> Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
> Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 2:28 PM
> 
> for an exmple of somewhat more complete and better designed benchmarks of

> this type:
> 
> http://www.inversenet.com/about/backgrounder.html#2
> 
> note that they understand the numerous factors that contribute to overall

> performance.  only a marketing droid could think downloading 50k worth of

> web pages is somehow an indicator of overall performance.
> 
> 
> b3n

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