[64159] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Thu Oct 16 15:41:01 2003
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:12:04 -0700
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: JC Dill <nanog@vo.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1066305628@dhcp157-233.corp.tellme.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 12:00 PM 10/16/2003, Owen DeLong wrote:
>Agreed. I plan to wear a red shirt and bring a tomatoe. The tomato will
>sit quietly on the table near me. It will not be used as a projectile
>no matter how much Verisign tries to convince me it should. Really.
>I will not throw the tomato at Verisign no matter how much they deserve it.
>
>Wayne is right. For this to have the desired effect, we need to make it
>a peaceful and symbolic protest, not a brawl.
EXACTLY.
>I would also suggest that we try to make contact with a second-harvest or
>other organization that may be able to use the tomatoes afterwards.
Great idea! Can we count on Dan for tomato acquisition and for Owen for
post-protest dispersal to a foodbank?
jc
(I so wish I could be there!)
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