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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet Bandwidth Manager
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:34:00 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: randy@rg.net, peterm@canopus.estinc.com, dennis@etinc.com,
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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
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