[18683] in North American Network Operators' Group
Rah for Patrick.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Thu Aug 13 20:58:36 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:25:37 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4.0.1.19980813005700.04873410@priori.net>; from "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@priori.net> on Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 01:38:08AM -0700
On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 01:38:08AM -0700, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> I COMPLETELY agree, and I am currently working for free to get our
> customers moved. I do appreciate any offers of assistance to get my
> friends and customers "on net" ASAP. I currently have problems in the
> Denver, Dallas and Boston markets. I believe I have secured at least
> temporary transit for all customers in all other cities. There isn't a
> whole lot of bandwidth necessary, but getting a loop in days is, as we all
> know, nearly impossible. If someone in our collocation facilities could
> keep them up, even sub-optimally, even temporarily, I would greatly
> appreciate it and donate my engineering time to do whatever was necessary
> to get it done.
Bravo, Patrick. _This_ is how a _man_ dies, to paraphrase Bob
Heinlein.
This is a perfect counter-example to what I was bitching about with the
BBN fracas. Serve the customers, _then_ worry about the money.
Cheers,
-- jra
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