[28482] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cutting to the chase (was RE: ABOVE.NET SECURITY TRUTHS?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Bligh)
Mon May 1 17:08:22 2000
From: Alex Bligh <amb@gxn.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "01 May 2000 13:35:42 PDT."
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Sean Donelan wrote:
> prevent them from speculating because some of their
> speculation will be wrong?
>
> No. Its important we get as many possibilities on
> the table. But we need
Well, please can we not have the infinite number of possibilities,
raised mostly by those without access to any data, each trumpetted
ad-nauseam on NANOG.
A. Speculation != Operation
B. Advice to posters on the subject of speculating on the misfortunes
of other people's networks: Before posting, remember 'your network
could be next'. If you are not a network operator, consider
why you are writing in the first place. If you think your
network is immune from being next, either (a) it's vanishingly
small, (b) you have an ego problem, or (c) stop wasting
time writing to NANOG & go patent your holy grail.
[ & Sean, your fiber cut reports are the opposite of
ill-informed speculation ]
--
Alex Bligh
VP Core Network, Concentric Network Corporation
(formerly GX Networks, Xara Networks)
