[2554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CSPAN at NANOG?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Apr 12 09:29:16 1996
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:27:37 -0400
To: "William B. Norton" <wbn@umich.edu>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@home.merit.edu
Thank you.
The voice of sanity prevails. :-)
- paul
At 08:38 AM 4/12/96 -0400, William B. Norton wrote:
>Hi all -
>
>Thanks for your feedback regarding CSPAN at the next NANOG. Based on the
>concerns that some of you raised I've decided *not* to send out the media
>advisory to CSPAN and the press. Issues leading to that decision included
>1) attendees holding their tongues for fear of being misquoted,
> "Joe X from NetQ said '....' might be stated more succinctly as
> "NetQ representatives said '.....' or "NetQ said '....'
>2) the press misunderstanding and then overemphasizing some issues
>
>There was also a fear that marketing folks might be attracted to the bright
>lights and degrade the technical quality of the meeting. Reasonable concerns.
>
>Cheers -
>
>Bill
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