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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:36:55PM -0600, Ukyo Kuonji wrote:

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Did I miss some discussion about the Beer and Gear surprise? I, personally, feel somewhat cheated that there was no "gear" available from the vendors in attendance.

<rumor>

Sponsors were specifically asked _not_ to give out clothing, as the Cisco boxer shorts distributed at NANOG 20 were somehow deemed offensive and discriminatory.

</rumor>

Don't get me wrong, Beer and Gear was definitely time well spent, I just found the "gear" aspect (assuming that's in reference to freebies, not hardware demonstrated by vendors) a bit lacking. ;)

Long live free vendorware.

-adam

Er... I can understand offensive (I don't agree, but I can understand), but I don't understand how they were discriminatory. The only people in my house that like to wear Boxers are my two daughters. I'm a tighty whitey person myself. Most of my daughters female friends claim to prefer boxers too. Maybe it's just local to SJ. Owen