Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:56:19PM -0600, Gadi Evron wrote:
Okay, this was fun and I am all for OT fun. But can we please stop putting
down a part of our community? Especially one which contributes to NANOG so
much?
We all have sale trolls to live with.
I both agree and disagree. I agree that the put-downs are a bit
excessive (I laughed more than once :-) ), but I disagree with
the "sale trolls" comment.
UltraDNS's sales staff *does not* have to behave like this.
Agreed. When I get such calls, the first question I ask is, "Is this a
sales call?" If I get an honest "Yes", I'm somewhat more inclined to
continue the conversation. If the first thing a salesperson tells me is
a lie, game over.
Similarly, any company that spams me selling network equipment or
connectivity is clearly way beyond stupid and not one with which I would
ever consider doing business.
Yes, this thread is OT to a large extent, but we are network operators.
Many of us have sales staff. Educating our own sales people on what not
to do is a step towards noise reduction, albeit out-of-band noise as far
as this forum is concerned.
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