Dear Mr. Huegen, Must say your below email about me was very upsetting. What EXACTLY was "rubbish" in my recent InfoWorld column about NANOG etc? /Bob Metcalfe PS: You're confusing me with the other Bob Metcalfe, the one who writes about hog prices. At 8:44 AM 4/4/96, Craig A. Huegen wrote:
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On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:
As top the top 100 cheief engineers, assuming for a moment that 100 number is something more than a number I pulled out of thin air., With your comments to Nanog you are probably addressing half.
Bob Metcalfe is just another example of a computer journalist caught up in the buzzwords of the current technology. It's sad to see such rubbish in news, but hey, it's how they make the money. It's very disappointing that he attempts to DEFEND his cluelessness against some of the BEST in the industry.
Bob, I recommend you go back to covering hog prices for the local paper.
/cah
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On Apr 4, 14:25, Bob Metcalfe <bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com> wrote:
Dear Mr. Huegen,
Must say your below email about me was very upsetting.
Well, you haven't exactly taken this forum with storm either, have you? In this forum you are directly addressing the people who deal with Internet operations. And planning. And strategy. And whatnot. The people here keep it working, and keep it growing, and they've been doing that ever since the start. There are severe growing pains in the Internet, but your story doesn't add anything of value to whatever debate you can think of.
What EXACTLY was "rubbish" in my recent InfoWorld column about NANOG etc?
Let's do a twist on your Internet story -- just three sentences, the two first of which adequately paraphrase the amount of fact in it: "The power utilities company reported that flooding had killed primary and backup power to the region." "I picked up the telephone to call them, but the line was out of order." "Let's all Question Regulation." The conclusion is somewhat the opposite of yours. But then, it wasn't inspired by a bumper sticker. -- ------ ___ --- Per G. Bilse, Mgr Network Operations Ctr ----- / / / __ ___ _/_ ---- EUnet Communications Services B.V. ---- /--- / / / / /__/ / ----- Singel 540, 1017 AZ Amsterdam, NL --- /___ /__/ / / /__ / ------ tel: +31 20 6233803, fax: +31 20 6224657 --- ------- 24hr emergency number: +31 20 421 0865 --- Connecting Europe since 1982 --- http://www.EU.net; e-mail: bilse@EU.net
Good for you, Per, and thanks for a well-phrased reality check. Mike Norris
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