From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 15 20:48:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.shianet.org (alpha.shianet.org [205.138.41.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A33E14FE8 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 20:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wrath@shianet.org) Received: from WRATH01 (port56.owosso03.tir.com [216.40.132.185]) by alpha.shianet.org (8.9.1/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA26778; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:44:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <007501becf46$85554190$b98428d8@wrath.wrath.net> From: "Brian" To: "James Wyatt" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Any experience with T3/HSSI cards and FreeBSD? Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 23:46:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: James Wyatt To: Jon Rust Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 9:50 AM Subject: Re: Any experience with T3/HSSI cards and FreeBSD? | On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Jon Rust wrote: | > At 5:20 PM -0400 7/14/99, Dennis was again pimping his product: | > >Dont pay too much attention to our list prices. The gov't is buying them at | > | > Don't pay too much attention to Dennis period. Browse through | > archives of inet-access and you'll see what I mean. The other vendors | > deserve more of your attention. | | Oh no, not the Dennis basher's club again! Next thing we'll be hearing | from the guy who didn't get some screws and cheerful support and can't | find a hardware store. If Dennis sold nothing but junk, he would be gone, | but he isn't. He isn't Mr. Sunshine(tm) all the time, but his stuff works! | I have a question, does he get any repeat business or is everyone trying to dump his hardware and invest in some high-end "criscos"? | > Some great "Dennisisms": | | Meaning "things I can't quote because it's what I think he meant", right? | | > - All ISPs are in the business of pirating software | > | > - No ISPs are potential customers of his | > | > - Any ISP that blocks spam should be sued and possibly thrown in | > the slammer | | Here is where we disagree, I don't know what he was smoking... 8{( | | > - Anyone that is too stupid to figure out his products on their own with | > no support, doesn't qualify to buy them | > | > No, I'm not making these up. Yes, his product seems attractive, but | > for me, his general demeanor online would scare me away. | | But have you ever *used* his products? I agree he isn't always sunshine | and is frequently condescending, but his products *really* work on FreeBSD | and he has a technical clue. He might do well to hire a 'handler' for some | of his more righteous customers. Most of them swear by his products from | what I've seen. Some of them swear at him, then things go downhill... | | Like everyone else, I'm going to ask why this is getting started on this | list again and that we move on to something else... Thanks - Jy@ | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message