On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Sean Doran wrote:
Gotcha. While the timings won't be exactly exact, we will take you up on your invitation.
Now if NANOG had a PR flack monitoring the list he would jump up and propose a press release... NANOG is pleased to announce that SPRINT has agreed to provide data for the Routing Arbiter's statistics database. This makes 5 of the 6 major North American NSP's participating in the project to collect and analyze statistics on traffic levels through the Internet's core. SPRINT joins Alternet, MCI, Netcom and (hmmm was AGIS/Net99 on that list??) in supporting the RA's project to open a window on what type and volume of traffic is flowing through the core. This is important because ..... (educational diatribe) The Internet's core consists of ...... (yet another educational diatribe) NANOG (North American Network Operators Group) is an informal forum for NSP's and major customers to share information, problems and solutions regarding the day to day operation of the Internet. NANOG has quarterly meetings throughout North America and members keep in touch regularly via the NANOG mailing list. More info is available at http://www.nanog.org (I know the URL is wrong, but that could be changed). Now is this an evil thing? Find a good excuse, write a short announcement, pad it out to tow or three pages with educational material that you know the press needs to learn anyway, provide a URL for them to followup if they want to drill deeper into the topic... Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com