[42358] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yes it's off topic but who cares right now.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Starta)
Sat Sep 15 02:01:39 2001
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010914224742.05088df0@popcorn>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:49:49 -0700
To: <ekgermann@cctec.com>
From: John Starta <john@starta.org>
Cc: "Barney Wolff" <barney@databus.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <NDBBJJPLIGJGLBKILFIHKEIODPAA.ekgermann@cctec.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 09:10 PM 9/14/01 -0400, Eric Germann wrote:
> > To quote (approximately) the great pragmatic philosopher Lazarus Long,
> > the only things to do with an enemy are make a friend of him or kill
> > him. Leaving him alive and still an enemy is foolish.
>
>I don't know who said it but, to add
>
>"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggy' while searching for a bigger
>rock"
I believe Wynn Catlin is the author.
jas
