On Fri, 25 Oct 1996, Peter Kline wrote: Peter Kline explains how the comments by JD Falk were made completely out of context and were from a private conversation by two individuals who do not appear to get along with each other. IMHO Peter gives far more graphic detail than neccessary. It would have been sufficient to note that the conversation between Ron and Peter was private and that Peter felt he was being unjustly attacked by Ron.
In light of Ron's comment to me, I think it would be in the best interest of AGIS's customers to email or call Mr. Ron Burleson of CAIS/CGX (email address conveniently cc'd above by JDF) and ask him how he intends to fuck AGIS (by SYN flooding or other denial of service attack, physically damaging colocates, or what).
Now Peter goes one step further and because of the fact that he had an unpleasant conversation with a competitor he suggests that the competitor may be planning criminal acts. However Peter shows no evidence why he would think that way except for the fact that he personally dislikes the president of this competing company. Naughty boy.
When he doesn't respond, bury his office with calls and mail, or even better, track him down at IETF or the next NANOG, get him into a corner, and demand to know why he didn't return your calls and mail.
Just because there are a few people out there who cannot behave civilly is no cause for you to sink to their level and certainly no cause for you to suggest that everybody else sink to their level. In the end all this talk is meaningless and only time will tell whether any provider gets squashed like a bug. Big and little really don't matter that much. In the world of business it is not unheard of for a small company to take over controlling interest in a larger competitor. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com