Hmmm ... I suppose I would prefer this community not be made an explicit
source of information for a reporter. Implicitly, if reporters must hang
off this thread, they should be able to discern impact from perspective
given here. However, if questions like the one(s) asked below became
"standard" on this thread, then soon the function of the group slants to
something other than a forum to aid (each other) in the proper
"management" of the affairs of Network Operators ... and may morph into
something far less useful.
No intention to "scare" ...
-gh
Hmmm ... I suppose I would prefer this community not be made an explicit
source of information for a reporter.
You're about 10 years too late. Reporters have been lurking
on the NANOG list for at least that long. Only the newbie
reporters post info requests to the lists. The pros send
private emails to list members or go to a NANOG meeting
and prowl the hallways.
Or did you somehow think that the Internet was a secret
network for the members of some private club?
--Michael Dillon
Hmmm ... I suppose I would prefer this community not be made an
explicit source of information for a reporter. Implicitly, if
reporters must hang off this thread, they should be able to
discern impact from perspective given here. However, if questions
like the one(s) asked below became "standard" on this thread, then
soon the function of the group slants to something other than a
forum to aid (each other) in the proper "management" of the
affairs of Network Operators ... and may morph into something far
less useful.
Give me a break. This list becoming "less useful"?!
Alert the press! (or maybe not, according to you)
Traditionally, there has been a real knowledge gap between
technology journalists and network operators. This has the negative
effect of mainstream media presenting incorrect and/or skewed
information regarding not only technical issues, but larger industry
issues (including things like l3/cogent).
Without clued contacts, journalists are forced to glean their
information from sources like vendor press releases and sales
representatives.
Is that how you'd like the public's window into the industry
colored? Do you really think that VendorSpeak really needs any more
legitimizing?
matto
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The only thing necessary for the triumph
of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke