99% of all statistics are crap
                       -- Theodore Sturgeon

Rgds,
-drc

At 12:04 PM 12/11/2000 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I guess I've just become too cynical about what marketing folks will
> > do.  Perhaps you're right.  Perhaps no ISP's marketing folks would say
> > "since we run one of the nameservers for <blah>, it is obvious that
> > responses to requests to <blah> would be better than for our
> > competitors."  or "since we run one of the nameservers for <blah>, our
> > network is obviously better than our competitor who doesn't."  (regardless
> > of how true such statements might be).
>
>87.3% of the customers do not understand/care.  12.5% of the customers know
>it's rubbish.  my competitors can have the other 0.2%
>
>randy

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