[20371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet 1, Backhoe 0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Sat Oct 10 14:05:12 1998
In-Reply-To: <199810091813.LAA06336@condor.lvrmr.mhsc.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:51:06 -0400
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>, scott w <scott@digisle.net>
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
Cc: Harold Willison <harold@agis.net>, nanog@merit.edu
At 11:13 AM -0700 10/9/98, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>I just took a peek at the Gomes Gopher shirt.
>
>IMHO, it would be a LOT better not to depict *any* person at all. Simply a
>picture of the back-hoe, bright yellow, in the gun-sights. Make is a
>hi-tech gun-sight with ranging ranging, azimuth, and elevation markings.
>The back-hoe should be one of those enclosed driver compartment types so
>the operator can't be seen.
>
>No matter which operator is depicted, someone could construe it as being
>racially/ personally defamitory. This would prevent many of us from wearing
>it in the work-place.
>
>
People don't kill fiber, backhoes kill fiber.
Support the right to keep and bear backhoes.
