[6914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: E.E. Times?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jan 13 09:58:54 1997
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 97 06:56 PST
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: labovit@merit.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> The EE Times writer stumbled across the May/June BoardWatch article that
> somehow warped the May NANOG discussions on routing stability into a story
> on "Cisco's dirty little secret." The EE Times author apparently thought
> this would make a great basis for a vendor-bashing story, so he gave both
> Merit and Cisco a call.
>
> Both Cisco and the RA tried to carefully (and at great length) explain to
> the EE Times writer the same things discussed at NANOG.
He called others, namely me. Having had many bad experiences with the
yellow press on a mission, I did not go on at great length.
When called by a panther, don't anther. - Ogden Nash
randy
