Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:56:19PM -0600, Gadi Evron wrote:
Okay, this was fun and I am all for OT fun. But can we please stop putting down a part of our community? Especially one which contributes to NANOG so much?
We all have sale trolls to live with.
I both agree and disagree. I agree that the put-downs are a bit excessive (I laughed more than once :-) ), but I disagree with the "sale trolls" comment.
UltraDNS's sales staff *does not* have to behave like this.
Agreed. When I get such calls, the first question I ask is, "Is this a sales call?" If I get an honest "Yes", I'm somewhat more inclined to continue the conversation. If the first thing a salesperson tells me is a lie, game over. Similarly, any company that spams me selling network equipment or connectivity is clearly way beyond stupid and not one with which I would ever consider doing business. Yes, this thread is OT to a large extent, but we are network operators. Many of us have sales staff. Educating our own sales people on what not to do is a step towards noise reduction, albeit out-of-band noise as far as this forum is concerned. -- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV