[123908] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CSIRT - Backbone Security : Runtime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brielle Bruns)
Wed Mar 17 21:20:50 2010
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:20:12 -0700
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns@2mbit.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1003180109.AA26859@ivan.Harhan.ORG>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/17/10 6:09 PM, Michael Sokolov wrote:
>> My spammy sense is going nuts just at the whole ALL CAPS of this guy's
>> last name.
>
> I thought all-uppercase last names were a traditional French convention...
> This guy is French, isn't he? - judging by his name.
>
> His habit of addressing everyone as "Mister" is peculiar indeed, but
> maybe he is really just very new to the customs and conventions of the
> Anglophone Internet community?
>
> Just wondering...
>
> MS
>
I'm not sure of conventions, but he just referred to me as Mister Bruns
in private e-mail. Not a good way to get on my good side, given Brielle
is a French name that means 'exalted goddess'. :-)
Though he seems highly optimistic that I should develop for him. *rolls
eyes*
--
Brielle Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
