[133746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Thu Dec 16 15:15:26 2010
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:13:47 -0600
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Randy Epstein <nanog@hostleasing.net>
In-Reply-To: <032901cb9d5a$46f79800$d4e6c800$@net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 02:48:56PM -0500, Randy Epstein wrote:
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> I was in the IRC channel at the time and saw it. It's real.
>
> I don't support the posting of IRC logs, but can't control that either.
I saw it too. I don't support posting of IRC logs trying to get people
"in trouble" (though lord knows it wouldn't be the first time that has
happened :P), but I also completely disagree with Comcast's position on
this (big shocker, I know).
As one of the people who has spoken out against Comcast's actions the
most vocally, I suppose the original sentiment might very well be
targeted at me. Personally I really don't think that people on the NANOG
list posting about their network issues or actions has ANYTHING to do
with their sponsorship of the NANOG conferences or community, and I
suppose I should be shocked and appalled that it might come down to
these type of threats to silence people who have something negative to
say. I'm a Comcast customer too (50M/10M or 6M/768K DSL at home, gee,
decisions decisions :P), what are they going to do next, shut off my
cable modem for TOS violations? :)
Seriously guys, this is an operator forum and you're running a congested
network, to expect that people are not going to comment on those facts
just because you've put money into NANOG sponsorship is absurd.
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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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