[11361] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic does it again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jul 28 18:47:32 1997
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:06:32 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
Cc: David Stoddard <dgs@us.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970728135639.3115A-100000@vellocet.insync.net>; from Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net> on Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 02:04:56PM -0500
On Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 02:04:56PM -0500, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > The major complaint I hear about the InterNIC isn't that they're
> > arrogant, it's that their a black hole. Or worse, a roach motel:
> > complaints check in, but they don't check out.
> >
> > That's exactly the problem I have with them. They need a PR person,
> > with an extensive background in the culture of the net, and the power
> > to get things done... and they need one _now_.
>
> Exactly. If NSI doesn't have someone who head up pr doing the work of
> informing the net community of what problems it's having, then rumors
> start happening. Rumors spread out, and get picked up by the media.
> Since the media is obviously a part of this list (we sure get quoted a
> lot), these stories of NSI outages start making the news. The price of
> NSI stock drops, and NSI's stockholders are not happy. Life is not good
> for NSI. So, doesn't it make sense to just get someone to do the PR job?
Sorry, Joe. Ms. Baker at DEC tells me we're off topic.
Cheers,
-- jra
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