[3371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: InfoWorld Column on Netcom-Cisco Ampersand Collapse
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Doran)
Tue Jul 9 13:52:39 1996
From: Sean Doran <smd@icp.net>
To: bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com, nanog@merit.edu
Cc: c-huegen@quad.quadrunner.com
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 13:44:38 +0100
| Ever your fan and loyal opposition,
The only thing you seem to fan is flames.
Why don't you write something useful, like why is it that
outage reporting is so spotty, and why is it that people
don't seem willing to share technical details of outages
such that other technical folks can learn from mistakes
and disasters?
I can tell you why outage@sprint.net isn't what it used
to be: journalists and PR folks would turn detailed technical
reports of the scope, cause, and cure for our outages into
columns dedicated to bashing cisco, Sprint, or both.
There is a disease on the Internet, and that disease is
"us and them"ism. You are well-placed to help cure that
disease, yet right now you are one of its biggest transmission
vectors, Bob, and it's a huge pity.
Sean.
