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Re[4]: data request on Sitefinder

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Mon Oct 20 20:39:52 2003

Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:38:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <p05100316bbba27b7e68a@[192.168.0.2]>
Reply-To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:06:50 -0400 "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com> wrote:
> I would suggest, however, that the number of people that do read 
> these lists run mail servers with more end users than the small 
> system administrators that do not.

true, but this can be interpreted as "they're small and clueless, so
screw 'em", a position which i find unattractive.
 
> The absence of a list such as I've described, the difficulty of 
> creating of which you point out, makes it more unlikely to me that an 
> organization can really assess the effects of unilateral design 
> changes, especially when that assessment is shrouded in commercial 
> secrecy.

agreed.

richard
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