No disrespect, but here's some disrespect? $5k for some numbers or $5k for the equipment to bring Internet to another hundred people? ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us> To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog@ics-il.net> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 5:21:41 PM Subject: Re: IPv4 smaller than /24 leasing? On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 6:06 PM, Mike Hammett < nanog@ics-il.net > wrote: There are hundreds of ISPs with under 500 customers. More start up every week. No need to marginalize them. Hi Mike, No disrespect, but anyone who can't afford to spend $5000 on resources critical to their activity is not in the Internet business or any other kind of business and should probably stop lying to themselves about that. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us Dirtside Systems ......... Web: < http://www.dirtside.com/ >