[1930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Low quality ISPs (was Re: larger space was: Re: [NIC-.... )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Curtis Villamizar)
Fri Feb 16 12:06:41 1996
To: cpayne@fiber.net
cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: curtis@ans.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Feb 1996 15:18:25 MST."
<9602152218.AA16761@fiber.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 11:56:04 -0500
From: Curtis Villamizar <curtis@ans.net>
In message <9602152218.AA16761@fiber.net>, Carl Payne writes:
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> Can you imagine what this world would look like if there were ANY other =
> industry with as many clueless consumers as clueless vendors?
Ever read IBM and Microsoft press releases from the mid 1980s? :-)
Isn't that where they got the term "vaporware"? Some of the announced
gonna-be-a-products-real-soon barely made any technical sense.
There is a precidence for clueless consumers. In fact I think its
approximately the same herd of lemmings.
Curtis