[34851] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beer and Gear surprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Rothschild)
Wed Feb 21 01:15:07 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:13:50 -0500
From: Adam Rothschild <asr@latency.net>
To: Ukyo Kuonji <kawaii_iinazuke@hotmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <F29SkPbbCRRSAKhcRA20001f363@hotmail.com>; from kawaii_iinazuke@hotmail.com on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:36:55PM -0600
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:36:55PM -0600, Ukyo Kuonji wrote:
> Did I miss some discussion about the Beer and Gear surprise? I,
> personally, feel somewhat cheated that there was no "gear" available
> from the vendors in attendance.
<rumor>
Sponsors were specifically asked _not_ to give out clothing, as the
Cisco boxer shorts distributed at NANOG 20 were somehow deemed
offensive and discriminatory.
</rumor>
Don't get me wrong, Beer and Gear was definitely time well spent, I
just found the "gear" aspect (assuming that's in reference to
freebies, not hardware demonstrated by vendors) a bit lacking. ;)
Long live free vendorware.
-adam
