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Date:      Thu, 19 Feb 1998 16:16:21 -0700 (MST)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
Cc:        Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Coming out 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980219161146.25280H-100000@alive.znep.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216215036.22103A-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>

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On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, jack wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote:
> 
> > While we are in the topic of advertising FreeBSD,
> > http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/
> > Topic: Could You get Fired for Chosing Linux
> > 
> > Feel to "Fire" at Berst it looks like he honestly is begging for it .
> > 
> > It is time to take this show on the road 8)
> 
> That guy's a total idiot.  IIRC, he once touted the wonders of
> NetMedic.  In today's article he recommends dumping your ISP if
> you have trouble loading web pages, yeah 404 errors are always on
> the requesting side, and if your email isn't delivered within
> five minutes.  /Every/ complaint of slow delivery I have
> investigated has been because the other end refused the
> connection (usually AOL, go figure) or it was delivered within
> seconds but the other end, more often than not a national
> provider or RBOC, took hours to make it available to their
> customer.

Don't worry, even the guys at Ziff Davis that I was talking to yesterday
think he is an... erm... clueless moron. 

Will be interesting to see if ZD's (erm... Softbank's) public share
offering will change how they do things.  Probably not, since it is
already so easy to corrupt journalists.


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