[37928] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Email Parcel Post is Good!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland Meyer)
Fri May 25 19:10:36 2001
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From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
To: 'Andrew Brown' <atatat@atatdot.net>,
Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:00:22 -0700
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> From: Andrew Brown [mailto:twofsonet@graffiti.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:59 AM
>
> >> that and a small perl script are how i get all the
> internet drafts and
> >> rfcs as they are published.
> >
> >Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
>
> no. i expect someone to tell the marketing vp that emailing large
> documents is "wrong" and that someone will fedex them some floppies.
> or a zip disk. or a jaz disk. or a dlt tape containing a bzip2'ed
> copy of a hpodc cpio archive. in halfword swapped format. :)
>
> but not email.
... and you expect to get this disk from Livermore to Chicago, in 5 minutes,
... how?
Business moves at Internet speeds these days, in case you hadn't noticed.
To put it in a way even understandable to techies;
Collaborrative document, updated and swapped between 4 authors, and
reviewed by two others, widely separated geo-physically. Revised and
rewritten 5 times per day, for a week (Not counting NetMeetings). Trust me,
management does work this way.
Process run-time, with email = 1 week; with FedEx = 1 month.
Process cost (transit only), with email <= $20, with FedEx = $4500 (FedEx =
very happy)
Real cost; Deal is blown out because deliverable is three weeks late.
Instant lost revenue.
> my opinion.
opinion: invalid.
