[66194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Out of office/vacation messages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (steve ulrich)
Fri Jan 2 12:04:57 2004
In-Reply-To: <214A1342-3D41-11D8-934F-00039312C852@isc.org>
Cc: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>,
William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: steve ulrich <sulrich@botwerks.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 11:04:22 -0600
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Jan 2, 2004, at 10:31 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>
> On 2 Jan 2004, at 10:44, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
>
>>> - run on Windows,
>>> Oops, I see your problem. No self-respecting network operator runs
>>> any
>>> M$W boxen as an MTA, so Templin is an imposter/troll.
>>
>> This isnt true, the majority run Windows (at least thats what I see
>> in various
>> meetings and from the user-agent headers)
>
> I'm not arguing with your conclusion, but your reasoning is a little
> broken. Only a small proportion of the nanog list membership attend
> meetings, and those that do don't necessarily provide a representative
> distribution (of any kind).
>
> Similarly, the user-agent headers you see are from people on
> nanog-post; I am told the nanog list is much bigger.
it does bear noting that there's a difference between an MUA (UA ==
user agent) and an MTA (TA == transfer agent). rereading the
discussion w/that in mind might put a different spin on it for you. ;-)
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