[11091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Quote of the day!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Mon Jul 21 12:44:23 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970721115533.0280fe84@207.87.243.20>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:37:55 -0400
To: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
Cc: jvanick@megsinet.net (Jason Vanick), nanog@merit.edu
At 11:58 -0400 7/21/97, Eric Germann wrote:
>Quote from an Ameritech rep after being verbally abused in a meeting for
>them dropping a clients T-1 FOUR times cause nobody would write it down in
>the book:
>
>"We may suck, but we suck less!"
>
>At 10:04 PM 7/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>> From someone-I-can't-name-cuzza-their-job:
>>> "MFS is the spawn of satan, it's all a conspiracy to send us back to the
>>> dark ages of hand-written communication."
>>
>>How about the words that summ up MFS's (WorldCom's) entry into the local
>>phone market:
>>
>>My Fone Sucks...
>>
>>Also works with Amerisuck - Your Link to Pain and Suffering!
>>
>>After working with these kinds of telco problems all week you just have to
>>make up nice titles for them ;-)
It's not just the transmission side. In 1981 or so, at the first GTE
corporate network symposium, shortly after it bought Telenet, I gave a
presentation on Telenet's network management architecture.
My obligatory opening joke suggested that electronic mail could be regarded
as a technology that would allow the Postal Service to lose the mail at the
speed of light.
A hand in the audience arose...turning out to be the President/COO of GTE.
He looked at me and asked "what about your own company's offering,
Telemail?"
I took a deep breath. "Oh. We lose it slower."
Howard
