We've adopted sending cakes a couple times in that same spirit. They've been met with equal success.
From: "John Peach" <john-nanog@peachfamily.net>
To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 6:51:39 AM
Subject: Re: Whats going on at Cogent
On 10/23/2018 08:47 PM, Ross Tajvar wrote:
> Sorry all. I misread Owen's email. I'm not trying to air his private
> business to the list.
There is no secret - a quick search on the terms HE, Cogent and peering
(and possibly cake) will give you the answer. Presumably Owen is not
expounding because he used to work for HE.
>
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 8:20 PM Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org
> <mailto:brad@shub-internet.org>> wrote:
>
> On Oct 23, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Ross Tajvar <ross@tajvar.io
> <mailto:ross@tajvar.io>> wrote:
>
> > I am also interested in hearing about this. I think it's relevant
> to the current thread.
>
> Speaking only for myself, there are companies where I have done
> short-term contracts, and where I am definitely not interested in
> any further employment opportunities with them. OTOH, I am totally
> happy to continue to be a customer of theirs.
>
> Further discussion of that sort of thing would not be appropriate
> here. If Josh is in the same boat with HE, I totally understand.
>
>
> For the Network Time Foundation (and related projects), I think
> we've been pretty happy as a customer of HE, but then we're just a
> small customer of theirs.
>
> --
> Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org <mailto:brad@shub-internet.org>>
>
> Please forgive any typos. I'm fighting a failing keyboard on my
> laptop, in addition to having a broken finger.
>
--
John
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