[32351] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Sun Nov 19 20:01:17 2000
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:59:05 -0500 (EST)
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[ On Sunday, November 19, 2000 at 12:53:45 (-0800), Roeland Meyer wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
>
> Customer retention via fear mechanism has always been abhorent to me. They
> usually are intelligent enough to realize that removing the source of the
> fear is a good-thing<tm>.
One way or another.... Either he's afraid of you, or you're afraid of
him. :-)
> Exactly the case, most of the time. What many techies don't understand that
> a fearful customer is one whom will not be a repeat customer.
Well, actually, it's really a matter of whether or not he trusts you.
If not then you probably shouldn't want him as a (repeat) customer.
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Greg A. Woods
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