[34917] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beer and Gear surprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 22 02:43:33 2001
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:33:37 -0800
From: owen@dixon.delong.sj.ca.us (Owen DeLong)
Message-Id: <200102220733.XAA10704@irkutsk.delong.sj.ca.us>
To: kawaii_iinazuke@hotmail.com, asr@latency.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> [ Warning: this message is void of any operational content. ]
>
> 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
>
>
Er... I can understand offensive (I don't agree, but I can understand),
but I don't understand how they were discriminatory. The only people
in my house that like to wear Boxers are my two daughters. I'm a tighty
whitey person myself. Most of my daughters female friends claim to
prefer boxers too.
Maybe it's just local to SJ.
Owen
