Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:34:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: randy@rg.net, peterm@canopus.estinc.com, dennis@etinc.com, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet Bandwidth Manager Message-ID: <199607021434.HAA11499@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199607021359.IAA16831@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Jul 2, 96 08:59:54 am
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Joe Greco wrote: > > > We have a corporate policy of not doing business with folk who send junk > > email. We assume your lack of judgment and questionable ethics will not > > be limited to abuse of the net. > > If you're a member of the bsdi-users list, I might agree that this was > questionable content, but still within the realm of plausibility, given > that so many people have been desperately looking for a product like > this, it is new and innovative technology, and it was a relatively short > and to the point synopsis. It was not a lengthy marketing junk email. > > If you're a member of the freebsd-isp list, you don't have a leg to stand > on because this is something that is routinely requested by ISP's and is > 1000% on topic for the list, particularly when done as tastefully as > Dennis presented it. > > Dennis has been providing connectivity technologies in both camps for a > long time. While people may not always agree with him, he has done the > work and put in the time and effort and he has, in my opinion, earned the > position of being someone who should be listened to. He is not a > crackpot, particularly when he is discussing anything in his field of > expertise, and it would be foolish to ignore him on some petty and > misplaced rationale that his message was "junk email". thank you, Joe. you said it better than i could have. ;) jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB
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