[10315] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Black)
Fri Jun 27 21:15:19 1997
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 21:12:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To: Jack Rickard <jack.rickard@boardwatch.com>
cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199706272248.2070100@boardwatch.com>
On Fri, 27 Jun 1997, Jack Rickard wrote:
>
> Inverse technology appears to be in the business of selling $50,000
> marketing reports to order for anyone with $50,000.00. How would that be
> apt?
>
are you saying their results are irrelevant because they charge money?
what is the cost cutoff before a report is invalid due to cost? dazzle
us with your keen insight.
> Finally, I'm amazed at how "trivial it is to point out useless and devoid
> of meaning this is", when you haven't seen the results yet. It might be
> even EASIER once you've READ them.
>
>
> Jack Rickard
>
>
>
> ----------
> > From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
> > To: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Keynote/Boardwatch Internet Backbone Index A better test!!!
> > Date: Friday, June 27, 1997 3:00 PM
> >
> > I want to measure the response of each ISP's marketing department. So I
> > will send a certified letter to their office of record in Deleware, and
> > report how long before I get the receipt back. Maybe I well do this for
> 30
> > letters to get better data.
> >
> > So, we now have an interesting report of the accessibility of various
> ISPs'
> > web servers from Jack's house. While it is trivial to point out how
> useless
> > and devoid of meaning this is, what is a wee bit harder is to describe
> what
> > would be a useful measure to Jack's audience and how that might be
> obtained.
> >
> > Ben Black's pointing out
> http://www.inversenet.com/about/backgrounder.html#2
> > may be *very* apt, and somewhat ingenious, considering Jack's audience.
> >
> > Are there other good ideas or examples?
> >
> > randy
>
