Re: Removal of my brain

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrmm How many of you realize who Bill Manning is ? While you are at it, go flame Vinton Cerf... I am sure he will learn from you, too..

Re: Removal of my brain

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Irving
/signalnoise That said, I admit I probably hesitate a bit longer before flaming Dr. Cerf. :) If you've ever met them both, you would understand why. I have, on more than one occasion. My old address was @onecall.net Perhaps you saw our cars in the Indy 500 ? Vint does present

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Richard Irving
Todd Vierling wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote: I'm curious where in your contract you think Cogent guaranteed you connectivity to Level 3? My original contract was with NTT/Verio which Cogent purchased last year when Verio nuked their Boston POP. I'm having the

Re: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-05 Thread Richard Irving
Richard Irving wrote: /lurk Maybe not, the depeering L3 is involved in is sort of like blackmail, we can all thank the indicted ex-CEO of WorldCom, Bernie Ebbers, for the modern peering There can only be one rule set. Because you were there at the time Ebbers was going around? Do you

Re: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-05 Thread Richard Irving
vijay gill wrote: There can only be *one* ! - WorldCom chant, Circa 1995. WorldCom didn't know what IP SFI was in 95. Perhaps you mean UUNET/MFS? Or, perhaps I mean Alternet, eh ? - A Rose by any other name

Re: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-05 Thread Richard Irving
vijay gill wrote: Brzzzt! lost both points. My prior email was [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charter Nanog member. 8-) Then perhaps you'd know better than to think that Bernie knew what peering even was? Apparently not. Yada-Yada. *DO* try to be less vitriolic, TIA.. Those of you who know

Re: Peering vs SFI (was Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering)

2005-10-05 Thread Richard Irving
Sean Butler wrote: There can only be *one* ! - WorldCom chant, Circa 1995. WorldCom didn't know what IP SFI was in 95. Perhaps you mean UUNET/MFS? Or, perhaps I mean Alternet, eh ? - A Rose by any other name Or if you change 1995 above to 1997, which was when UUNET 1st

Re: Cisco to merge with Nabisco

2005-04-04 Thread Richard Irving
Pendergrass, Greg wrote: Well, they already eat into your profits. In Nibbles, or in Bytes ? :P -Original Message- From: Wayne E. Bouchard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 April 2005 22:34 To: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Cisco to merge with Nabisco

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Richard Irving
David Barak wrote: snip For crying out loud - this is UTAH, not the moon: the people there are just like people everywhere. Yeah, they tend to be a bit more socially conservative than the libertarian-leaning NANOG membership is used to, but it's not like they've got 2 heads and three arms - if

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread Richard Irving
Scott Weeks wrote: On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: : : Utah's governor signed a bill on Monday that would : require Internet providers to block Web sites deemed : pornographic and could also target e-mail providers : and search engines. : :

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread Richard Irving
Bill Woodcock wrote: The measure, SB 260, says: Upon request by a consumer, a service provider may not transmit material from a content provider site listed on the adult content registry. Its entirely voluntary on the part of the consumer. It's also voluntary on the

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread Richard Irving
pashdown wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:59:20PM -0600, Rachael Treu wrote: snip This bill is a waste of time and money. It also does further damage to the Utah tech industry, portraying it as an idiotic backwater. The finger isn't pointing at the -Techs- being the illiterates, but the

Re: Utah considers law to mandate ISP's block harmful sites

2005-03-04 Thread Richard Irving
Roy Engehausen wrote: You missed a very important line in the article: Internet providers in Utah must offer their customers a way to disable access to sites on the list or face felony charges. In other words you must provide a mechanism for a customer to opt-in to a filter. Doesn't sound

Re: fwd: Re: [registrars] Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-16 Thread Richard Irving
Don't panic ? ;) Lou Katz wrote: Is there anything that us folks out in the peanut gallery can do to help, other than locally serving the panix.net zone for panix.com?

Re: Route analysis from today's AS9121 incident - preso in Seattle?

2004-12-24 Thread Richard Irving
ren wrote: Dear NANOG Program Committee, Request: May we please have a presentation by Renesys on today's AS9121 incident at the Seattle NANOG 15-17 May 2005? soapbox So... remember the previously posted comment that most router melt downs are from human error ? Prophetic, isn't it ? It

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-19 Thread Richard Irving
Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: snip good stuff for space The infection rate among all computers is abysmal. It just happens to be higher among computers with AV and/or firewalls. AV/Firewalls don't seem to be making people safer from trojans, spyware,

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread Richard Irving
Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that the percentage of link failures over router failures is much, much higher. - ferg I'll go out on a limb and suggest... you weren't working in BGP during 1995-1998. :P (Or RIP in 1992-1993, DVMRP in 1997-1999:) --

Re: Anycast 101

2004-12-17 Thread Richard Irving
Hannigan, Martin wrote: Overall, fat fingers account for the larger percentage of all outages. Send that man a C-gar! :) lurk -M

Re: tli back at cisco

2004-12-09 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is huge! I guess Cisco delivered a dump trunk full of hundos to Tony's house. :) That, or they finally got the nail out of the door, from his last resignation. :P -- Original message --

Re: Peering best practices advice needed.

2004-12-08 Thread Richard Irving
Rolo Tomassi wrote: Hi all, Please forgive the simplistic nature of the query.. Basically my company is multi-homed with 2 different providers in the UK, and advertising a /18. Now some colleaguges in another part of the world want to break that /18 into two /19's and advertise one /19 and we

Re: Peering best practices advice needed.

2004-12-08 Thread Richard Irving
, they would be running different ASN's. Anything else hurts. On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 12:56:13PM -0500, Richard Irving wrote: Rolo Tomassi wrote: Hi all, Please forgive the simplistic nature of the query.. Basically my company is multi-homed with 2 different providers in the UK, and advertising

Re: Fw: [IP] Senate Hearing on ICANN Set for Thursday

2004-09-27 Thread Richard Irving
Should be interesting. :) Matthew McGehrin wrote: - Original Message - Date: September 27, 2004 3:18:34 PM EDT http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1324 ICANN Oversight and Security of Internet Root Servers and the Domain Name System (DNS) Communications Hearing

Re: Backbone IP network Economics - peering and transit

2004-04-23 Thread Richard Irving
Deepak Jain wrote: If direct connecting != peering then definitely. Maybe we need to say differentiate between: - Connected transit - Remote transit - Connected peering - Remote peering And agree that, by default, transit ~= remote transit peering ~= direct peering Without getting too

Re: Internet law

2003-12-30 Thread Richard Irving
Joe Abley wrote: On 30 Dec 2003, at 11:07, John Obi wrote: when will we see the FBI, and other local police in the other countries send the script kiddies to the JAILL so we can use the internet without too much pain? You're asking how long it might take for every government in every single

Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Irving
Oh... Had to take a potshot, didn't we ? FWIW, we are near filled now, and we managed to Keep the Faith... Alex Yuriev wrote: http://new.onecall.net/timages/dsxcabling.jpg http://new.onecall.net/timages/cat5patch.jpg Isn't it amazing how clean cabling in nearly empty collos and mmrs looks?

Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things

2003-12-16 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that you've educated the world about messy cabling jobs that should _not_ be done, perhaps you or someone else should now post _CLEAN_ cabling jobs that everyone should follow examples of :-) http://new.onecall.net/timages/dsxcabling.jpg

Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things

2003-12-16 Thread Richard Irving
Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Richard Irving wrote: http://new.onecall.net/timages/cat5patch.jpg Is that one really Cat. 5 compliant? (Tails out of the sheath look too long one some of them.) Routine Spin Downs created that (extended) Telco standard, we just carried it over to Data

Re: Request for submissions: messy cabling and other broken things

2003-12-16 Thread Richard Irving
Sharif Torpis wrote: uh-oh, what's this? http://new.onecall.net/timages/wanrack.jpg Hehehe.. :} The -old- building, and Telecom WAN room, circa early 1990's, late 1980's, and a bank of auto-ops from before the time when there was such a thing as a 1U server. new.onecall.net is

Does any know where the link is for

2003-12-03 Thread Richard Irving
I seem to recall someone doing a paper on ICMP and traceroute -at times-, as not always being indicative of actual network performance... Does anyone remember who, or where, that link is ? Thanks in Advance. :)

Re: This may be stupid but..

2003-11-09 Thread Richard Irving
Vadim Antonov wrote: The only problem - they have no clue about the profession they're recruiting for and tend to judge applicants not by them saying reasonable things but by their self-assuredness and by keywords in resume. And Statistics show, the less knowledgeable you are in this field, the

Re: ISPs' willingness to take action

2003-10-27 Thread Richard Irving
John Ferriby wrote: I'm really surprised to hear the assertion that people are leaving unfirewalled Exchange servers out on the net. Is this actually common?/shudders... I don't think that the small shops know any better. It's a matter of education, and in most of the cases I've seen the

Re: Alternative Satellite news feed needed

2003-09-30 Thread Richard Irving
If you are at an exchange, we can do the old days type usenet peering... We (operators) used to have a full mesh along the core prior to Cidera Much of that is disassembled It will now probably be re-assembled. (Heavens knows I am FWIW. :) Anyone interested , private

Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Irving
Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello Whoever , On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique. A specific enterprise reconfiguring the mac is akin to an enterprise using RFC1918

Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

2003-09-18 Thread Richard Irving
* sigh * s/there/their/ s/mps/mbs/ s/:)/:}/ 8-) Richard Irving wrote: Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello Whoever , On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: manufacturer assigned macs are guaranteed to be globally unique. A specific

Re: Hijacked email

2003-08-20 Thread Richard Irving
Please people, of all the great feedback these joe jobbed addresses are receiving, from the anti-virus software... it really wouldn't hurt to include the -=IP=- (and possibly headers) of the system that contacted your server. Rather than simply complain, it would allow us to track down,

Re: virus or hacked?

2003-08-20 Thread Richard Irving
Oh I don't know. Many here do a pretty good impression of that unique combination of skills prior to that first cup of coffee :P [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:45:46 EDT, Claire Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How catty. We all start somewhere, or have you forgotten?

Re: Blocking port 135?

2003-08-01 Thread Richard Irving
So, you don't like the smell of fried chicken ? We keep an old overclocked 486-33, with a quadrupler around, making it run at about 100mhz.. for just this purpose... Complete the Chicken ritual, at Midnight, of course. Unprotect port 25, let alt.freak know... Route all mail to

Re: Cisco Vulnerability Testing Results

2003-07-19 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this brilliantly simple idea that somehow everyone forgets, while they tout all the new advanced stuff. Do not introduce yet another name for filtering that works only in some cases. Fix the filtering code so we can filter *anything* at *any packet rate* on *any

CNN.com - Senator: Trash illegal downloaders' PCs - Jun. 18, 2003

2003-06-18 Thread Richard Irving
Just to continue the discussion of the RIAA oriented Laws, and how they seem to supersede American Constitutional rights Haven't these people heard of Multi-User Systems ? Excerpt: Senator: Trash illegal downloaders' PCs

Re: Rescheduled: P2P file sharing national security and personalsecurity risks

2003-06-13 Thread Richard Irving
IMHO: No more, or less, than SMTP. It is -that- simple. (Of course, SMTP is how China got Nuclear Secrets out of America :( ) FWIW: This is more tempestuous reactions at High Levels, that would normally have been laughed off. Except P2P's are annoying the Recording Industry execs, and

Re: .mil domain

2003-05-31 Thread Richard Irving
Precedent, Randy, Precedent ! UUnet and few others a long time ago had a differing definition of peering that most of us thought, at the time... But were so BIG, we accepted their routes, anyway. * shrug * A secret black list is a real bugger if: No one is allowed to mention it exists.

Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....

2003-04-04 Thread Richard Irving
Adam McKenna wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:25:35PM -0500, Richard Irving wrote: It isn't exactly completely RFC compliant, but, it is only a -=Request=-, eh ? It is in fact required that an MTA fall back to the A record for a domain if an MX record does not exist. See RFC 2821

Re: Foxnews / MSNBC Akamai issue?

2003-04-03 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was this ultimately an Akamai issue? I had a hard time getting to Fox News Today, as well. :) .Richard. [This was actually just a posting test, please ignore... :) ] http://www.pravda.ru/ Anyone else seeing DNS issues today?

Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....

2003-04-03 Thread Richard Irving
Gerardo Gregory wrote: snip Since then I have learned that some MTA's will look for an A record if it cannot find an MX record and use the A record instead. Once upon a time that was near all Micr0$loth did... Is this acceptable (in a best case scenario) as a correct method? It isn't

Re: is this true or... ?

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Irving
How do like this recent rounds of bureaucrats attempting to make lawsh-r-m ? A: IMHO:This should be officially declared, out of their jurisdiction. of such small municipalities... it is sort of like having a Nurse make the judgment call during a delicate heart surgery. It takes a

Re: is this true or... ?

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Irving
Sean Donelan wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, blitz wrote: If it is, it reveals how utterly clueless our legislators really are At 15:09 3/28/03 +0100, you wrote: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8595 Uhm, I don't think you can blame the legislators for this one. Almost identical

Re: is this true or... ?

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:59:02 EST, Richard Irving said: Sean Donelan wrote: identical legislation being introduced in six different states? I suspect an outside influence was involved in drafting the proposed legislation. Now, -that's- using your noodle

Re: is this true or... ?

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Irving
Nathan E Norman wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:07:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:59:02 EST, Richard Irving said: Sean Donelan wrote: identical legislation being introduced in six different states? I suspect an outside influence was involved

Re: is this true or... ?

2003-03-28 Thread Richard Irving
I think this is bringing it back on topic, Ms. Harris Ejay Hire wrote: Methinks what they are aiming for is trying to prevent spammers from hiding their origin using open relays/open proxies/stealthware. Agreed, However: The Highway to Hell is paved with Good intentions.

Re: UK ISPs not cooperating with law enforcement- COPA Enforcement BAN

2003-03-07 Thread Richard Irving
Another interesting point of Roberts Rules of Procedure for Internet Operational Protocols, so to speak... COPA has been struck down again. Your AUP's may have to be updated. ;) [Sorry NSP-SEC's for being redundant.. :*, shh...] Injunction against Enforcement of COPA, March 6, 2003.

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-03-03 Thread Richard Irving
Honestly people, to summarize all this... Legislation is not the correct knee jerk response to technical challenges... Lawyers and Politicians just -think- it is Perhaps related to perceiving themselves as important to the problem, eh ? And, that also happens to create a situation where

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Irving
There is NO legal advice in this post. Jack Bates wrote:(SNIPO) Should we outlaw a potentially beneficial practice due to its abuse by criminals? Okay. What happens if you make a mistake and overload one of my devices costing my company money. That is usually a civil issue, not

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Irving
In this case, your door being unlocked cannot cause me harm. However, an unlocked proxy can. Legit probes are an attempt to mitigate network abuse, not increase it. If there was a sanctioned body who was trusted to scan for such things, maybe this wouldn't be an issue. But there's not, so

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Irving
Len Rose wrote: Scanning is always a precursor to an attack, or to determine if any obvious methodology can be used to attack. At least that's how it has been historically viewed. See my other post. MAPS assists users in closing their innocent relay capable systems. And, FWIW, pro-active

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Irving
Joe St Sauver wrote: There is NO legal advice in this post. Really! In Oregon, see ORS 164.377(4): Any person who knowingly and without authorization uses, accesses or attempts to access any computer, computer system, computer network, or any computer software, program, documentation or

Re: anti-spam vs network abuse

2003-02-28 Thread Richard Irving
E.B. Dreger wrote: Actually, when one leaves honeypots and/or tarpits, getting probed can be rather fun... Second this ! :D Did you ever hear of the guy who wrote a C based 'bot trap and brought down both a big name search engine mining bot, and a providers (major) Unix server ?

Re: Homeland Security Alert System

2003-02-21 Thread Richard Irving
conf t router warning you cannot configure a router with this one Martin Hannigan wrote: I have my duct tape and plastic, but haven't applied it to the windows. I hear it is more effective, if you wrap the plastic around your head, and seal it with the duck tape Never had a

Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

2003-01-17 Thread Richard Irving
Vadim Antonov wrote: Caution this won't program a router: The police can then put down the rabid computer, permanently. Good in theory... in practice police has more important things to do. Like catching pot smokers. Not -=too=- much problem soon, thanks to the USA Patriot act. In

Re: Trends in network operator security

2003-01-09 Thread Richard Irving
They took the _medical records_ of _half a million_ US _soldiers_ and their families. Regardless of the identity-theft aspect, it's hard to imagine them not seeing a lucrative aftermarket for that batch of data. And just think, courtesy the USA Patriot act, next time it won't just be

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
The -real- challenge is to create a system -capable- of monitoring the entire internet Today there isn't enough horsepower to accomplish such a thing, except by exception to the rule, rather than the rule. In analogy: We can adjust the flows of the Hoover (remember him ?) Damn, we cannot

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
Freud, your slip is showing ? :P Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Richard Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In analogy: We can adjust the flows of the Hoover (remember him ?) Damn, we cannot however stop to count damn is an expletive, dam is a noun

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
Wayne E. Bouchard wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:12:43AM -0500, David Lesher wrote: But it is good for a laugh. Or a cry. :) :* :( FWIW, One American Government Legislative body, all full of itself, had all but passed an act requiring the value of PI to be legislated to 3,

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd)

2002-12-20 Thread Richard Irving
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Cough! Sure, or they could ask carriers to tap lines for them silently... in fact they can do that today with a court order. Nope. USA Patriot Act, No Court Order Needed. :( Civil Liberties for Tax Refunds, Takers ? :P A COO I know is actually

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread Richard Irving
I thought we agreed, no politics or, =functional= public disruption strategies! :D .Richard. == A historic moment, the very first head of homeland security, makes a patriotic speech at a GOP convention:

Trouble loading page

2002-11-21 Thread Richard Irving
Hrmmm... Is anyone else having trouble loading this page ? The trace looks good, must be the content and my browser ? http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacy.cfm?ID=11361c=130 Thanks in Advance. .Richard. :cointelpro: First they came for the democrats, I didn't care, as I wasn't one... Those

Re: Trouble loading page

2002-11-21 Thread Richard Irving
Subject: RE: Trouble loading page Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:39:00 -0600 From: Ayyasamy, Senthilkumar (UMKC-Student) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, that fixed it! Dohh! :}

Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Irving
Hrmm... Al-Quaida is the one selling FUD all over America ? I can't decide if it is actually Al Quaida, the current Political Regime, or simply newspaper reporters making the news with a common modus aperandi. (FUD) Remember, Great stories don't happen, reporters -make- great

Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Irving
Don't laugh too hard at this stored energy idea... We back up ~2500 Kva with a -=Flywheel=- System! (And Generator) CAT-UPS, don't leave home without it. :) Yesterday's Ludicrous Fiction is Tomorrow's Reality! blitz wrote: One last addition to this idiotic water idea.. since the water

Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Irving
they came for the dissidents, and I didn't care, as, I wasn't a dissident... Vadim Antonov wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Richard Irving wrote: To Paraphrase the -OLD- KGB: Quick Comrade, we will protect you, sign here What ? You want to be Safe, Comrade, don't you ? s/Comrade

Re: PAIX

2002-11-15 Thread Richard Irving
Warning , this post won't configure a router. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:36:54 -0500 David Diaz wrote: People seem to prefer cost of quality at this time. Good Fast Cheap Honey, part of our success is that I don't accept the above. Sooner or later, you will have

Re: PAIX

2002-11-15 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, I am a CEO. 1-900-psy-kick Call now, Mon, we're a waiting for ya! I am also (still) one of the most experienced and best educated IP engineers around. And humble, too. :\ [Said to a list where Van Jacobson and Vixie have been known to lurk]

JUNO.COM

2002-09-27 Thread Richard Irving
Pardon the interruption of White noise on the channel.. But, if anyone clueful at JUNO.COM is abroad, please contact me offline. I now return you to the usual. Thanks In Advance!

Re: Equinix to join role of chapter 11's?

2002-09-12 Thread Richard Irving
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a bet with my boss that Booz Allen Hamilton will file for chapter 11 before Equinix. You lose. Sal Sabella Get your free encrypted email at https://www.hushmail.com

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-02 Thread Richard Irving
This crossed my desk, thought someone might find it relevant.. (I am not sure who wrote it... ;) router conf t # REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:28:04 -0600 REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Richard Irving
Paul Vixie wrote: Space SNIP knowing that the pain can be transformed from can't exchange traffic pain into must pay money pain tends to reinforce this perception. Imagine that. :\ when this situation has existed in other industries, gov't intervention has always resulted. even when

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Richard Irving
Daniel Golding wrote: A vague sense of unfairness or unhappyness is the worst of reasons to regulate an industry. - Daniel Golding How about an industry being the origin of the 3 largest recorded fraud/bankruptcies in American History ?

Re: Sprint peering policy

2002-07-01 Thread Richard Irving
Deepak Jain wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Irving Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 1:15 PM To: Daniel Golding Cc: Paul Vixie; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sprint peering policy How about an industry being

Re: How low can Worldcom stock go?

2002-06-26 Thread Richard Irving
And Just think, The perpetrator of this fraud was the guiding light for the American Internet fair peering practices policy. Imagine that. Now, someone explain how an internet provider convinced congress that it didn't really have to carry an -internet customers- packet from one side

Re: How low can Worldcom stock go?

2002-06-26 Thread Richard Irving
Yeah OK... I am going to break an NDA and disclose ( Drum roll please.) The -=Secret=- Formula for There can only be ONE! [Label A:] Pull back peering from adjacent competitors Thus Forcing smaller competitors into Financial Difficulty (Due to lack of

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Richard Irving
a little older, and things settle down. And, more often than not, are awarded honorary degrees for the result of their work while riding the wave. Like I said -lead- the pack. LURK Is the above meta tag broken, or what ? Robert Beverly wrote: On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:17:11AM -0500, Richard

Re: list problems?

2002-05-24 Thread Richard Irving
If you hadn't clipped this, it would have been a non-issue: LURK Is the above meta tag broken, or what ? :P Petr M. Swedock wrote: GAAH! #!$H$%#@!X! This discussion has left the operational and entered the realm of baleful minutia and noxious ego-gratification. Please stop, or take

Re: list problems?

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Irving
/lurk Yeah! This PC and Internet revolution was founded by men with Advanced Degree's from Prominent Ivy League Colleges... Like Bill Gates... Oh No, wait... :O [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 May 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote: If you ever want to become a team leader, or a

Re: Problems with a black hole list in the netherlands

2002-03-09 Thread Richard Irving
Unfortunately, we received complaints -downstream-. If the gentleman involved had been even a little cooperative, we would even help remove a valid offender. Rock - US -Hard Place I need my morning coffee. TIA. Mark Radabaugh wrote: Were it not referenced by