[2492] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Sun Apr 7 01:59:00 1996
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 22:48:16 -0800 (PST)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@postman.ncube.com>
cc: bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com, hank@ibm.net.il, Letters@ccgate.infoworld.com,
jerry@fc.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9604070531.AA23287@butler.ncube.com>
On Sat, 6 Apr 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote:
> Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> >Craig came down very hard on Bob Metcalfe and I was hoping that over
> >the past few days someone would step in and explain that Bob is far
> >from being a clueless journalist. I believe Craig is just showing
> >how young he is.
>
> On my part, when i was flaming B.M. i was perfectly aware of who he
> is. However, being an authority is not a guarantee of being right
> or being clueful about that particular subject.
I strongly concur. Even though I am young, I still have studied a lot of
networking history. I knew who Bob Metcalfe was.
However, his InfoWorld article had some points which just made him look
like a complete newbie to this arena. He didn't do research, and
therefore looked like a Web-Magazine-of-the-Month editor, using buzzwords
and appearing to have no clue of what was really going on.
Take it as you please,
--Craig
