[28630] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET outage in Palo Alto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Danny McPherson)
Wed May 10 00:47:56 2000
Message-Id: <200005100445.WAA23309@tcb.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Danny McPherson <danny@tcb.net>
Reply-To: danny@tcb.net
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 22:45:44 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
While I certainly understand your point John, I definitely
understand Susan's.
This leads back to the discussion a few weeks ago regarding
"damage control" and the like. Think about it. If [foo]
posted and said [insert_company_here] sucks but [company]
had no idea who foo was, or why they were telling a few
thousand potential customers that they sucked, well, I can
understand [company] having a problem with that. Especially
if foo@domainname was actually a competietor, or for some
reason they believed foo may be.
I could even understand [company] telling the Merit folks
that they had a real problem with it, and strongly suggesting
they see that it doesn't happen again.
I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, just sharing an
observation.
-danny
>
> Some of us don't have the luxury of living under the veil of academia and
> as such, use "alternate" email accounts when posting information that
> while ON-TOPIC and of OPERATIONAL use, may cause significant political
> fallout.
>
> It might not fit the AUP. So be it. It was significantly above the
> typical S:N ratio for the list and as such, I believe that YOU are out of
> line in chastising the individual in question.
>
> If you don't like my particular opinion on the subject, please take it up
> with those in my company who have the powers to make my job go away.
>
