[93760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: today's Wash Post Business section
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Dec 21 10:53:57 2006
To: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:59:21 CST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:53:04 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:59:21 CST, Robert Bonomi said:
> How many people have a search engine as their 'home page' in their web
> browser?
>
> How many end-user types _don't_know_ about anything other than a web-browser/
> mail-client for Internet access?
And what percent of our operational issues are caused by that mindset?
(Hint - how much smaller would the spam problem be if end users actually
looked at their cable or DSL modem and wondered why the Tx/Rx lights were
on steady even though nothing was apparently happening?)
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