[87020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: trollage (Re: Akamai server reliability)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Nov 28 20:10:04 2005
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Chris Owen <owenc@hubris.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: (Your message of "Mon, 28 Nov 2005 11:08:52 -1000.")
<17291.29156.391354.250259@roam.psg.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:09:33 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
In message <17291.29156.391354.250259@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>
>> It isn't just that they are wasting my time. They are also wasting their
>> own time. It's the overall lack efficiency that bothers me ;-]
>
>i suspect you have a datapoint on how they're doing financially.
>they ain't stoopid. they'll deal with it when the cost/benefit
>gets high enough on their priority list. isn't the first time
>that good s&m covers some technical gaps, and won't be the last.
>
To quote a science fiction story I'm fond of, "efficiency depends on
what you want to effish".
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
