[33031] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: florida ix(en) facing south
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Patterson)
Thu Dec 21 13:38:37 2000
From: "Scott Patterson" <scottp@netrail.net>
To: "Bennett Todd" <bet@rahul.net>
Cc: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:15:15 -0500
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OK, I'm not going to spend my day arguing for shockwave, or against it. If
you want to read the site, read it. If not, don't. Either way, I agree
that I would like to see the two initiatives working a little closer
together.
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bennett Todd [mailto:bet@rahul.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 1:11 PM
> To: Scott Patterson
> Cc: Randy Bush; nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: florida ix(en) facing south
>
>
> 2000-12-21-12:17:26 Scott Patterson:
> > 2000-12-21-09:13:08 Randy Bush:
> > > folk clueless enough to put up a shockwave-only page sure ain't
> > > gonna get a lot of big isp business.
> > That's marketing folks for ya. Can't hold that against what the
> > NAP can offer.
>
> Actually, you can.
>
> If the website doesn't conform to reasonable standards, then either
> the company doesn't have technically competant people, or else they
> aren't able to influence the public website. Either way, I'd
> certainly steer a wide berth around any such company.
>
> It's within the bounds of possibility that the company really has
> technically competant people, who don't for whatever reason care
> about the public presence of their company on the net, but could fix
> it if they bothered. Even that fantasy scenario doesn't make me want
> to do business with them.
>
> -Bennett
>
