On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 bdragon@gweep.net wrote:
We have seen that many people *posting* do not have the best of intentions; I can assure you that there are lurkers on Nanog (surprise, surprise) who are not nearly as naive and well-intentioned as J. O. would hope. In fact, I know that there are subscribers from various print media, various on-line media, and certainly some stunningly unpleasant characters that I run into on other lists.
And after being /.ed several times, there are undoubtedly end-users, small enterprises, non-network folks from networking companies, and assorted other groups which don't fit the traditional network operator mold. Oh, and sales people...
Case in point: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/08/27/0214238.shtml?tid=111&tid=126 references http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg12818.html For those few finding the NANOG archives for the first time with this /. link, I'm sure they'll take some time to poke around recent threads with interesting titles like "Sobigf + BGP" Pete.