[17088] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Agent provocateur
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Hurst)
Wed May 20 17:34:10 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:24:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marc Hurst <mhurst@fastlane.ca>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.980520102201.20680C-100000@sidhe.memra.com>
Hey Jim! Wheres' my cut?
M:)
On Wed, 20 May 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
> > Has anyone nominated Jim for the Internet Kooks list, this year?
>
> He's not a kook. He is an agent provocateur who is paid by the telco
> industry to disrupt Internet activities. The monopoly telcos want to
> be able to show that the Internet folks are not capable of running the
> network and that government regulation is necessary. They like a
> regulatory regime because they have several generations of experience in
> manipulating government bureaucracies to their own advantage and the
> Internet currently lacks this.
>
> Fleming is a very sharp-witted psych-ops who can appear perfectly rational
> when it suits his goals. When he acts like a kook he does so in order to
> spark outraged outbursts from his Internet guru audience but is careful
> that a non-technical observer would se no cause for such an outburst in
> Jim's statements. His goal is to methodically discredit everyone who has
> any significant role in the design, management and operation of the
> Internet and he is paid handsomely enough by the monopoly telco industry
> that he can afford to buy a yacht and spend many months of the year living
> in a foreign tax haven in the British Virgin Islands.
>
> --
> Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
> Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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>
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