[8220] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: usable T1 bandwidth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew E. Pearson)
Tue Mar 18 17:40:56 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:17:39 -0500
To: David Carmean <dlc@avtel.net>
From: "Matthew E. Pearson" <mpearson@games-online.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 12:36 PM 3/18/97 -0800, David Carmean wrote:
>A polite "that question is more appropriately asked on the inet-access
>list" or similar would have been just fine.
>
I agree..
>You bitch about new network operators who don't know how to keep their
>BGP announcements clean, and who don't know about the politics and
>procedures of peering vs. transit, and the NAPs and elsewhere. But
>let someone come here and try to learn, and you turn your nose up and
>try to shame them out of your sight.
>
Actually I usually see a 50% flame 50% helpfull reply anytime I post. So I
just use my standard rule of thumb.. 90% of the people in the world are
total morons and 10% have some clue. So with a 50/50 split I think the
overall clue level is quite a bit higher here.
>You should be ashamed of yourselves.
I am ashamed everytime I look at my paycheck.
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