[51801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP address fee??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Israel)
Fri Sep 6 13:29:12 2002
From: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:28:40 -0400
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>,
Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>,
Derek Samford <dsamford@fastduck.net>,
"'Owens, Shane (EPIK.ORL)'" <sowens@epik.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Re: IP address fee?? (Richard A Steenbergen)
Reply-To: davei@algx.net
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 9/6/2002 at 13:18:54 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen said:
> And half the internet's users type "u r kewl", and think that ethernet is
> a broadband connection.
>
> Just because a misconception is popular doesn't mean we should indulge it.
> :)
>
> Think of it as a public service, if you make an effort to say "/24", and
> someone asks and you explain it, thats one less confused person
> circulating around teaching others.
Think of it as a service towards your own future, too. An awful lot
of the new protocols and services arise out of college environments,
and hence the proliferation of protocols that work fine in a campus
network but somehow just don't fly in the "real" world.
