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From: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
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Subject: Re: hey wait a minute ...
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Date: 13 Sep 90 17:53:08 GMT
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In article <4160@husc6.harvard.edu> sob@harvisr.UUCP (Scott Bradner) writes:
>I was more than a little surprised to hear the other day that I was on
>contract to Wellfleet.  At least that was what some people were saying.
>
>Well it is not true...
>
>Like with many tall tales there may be a slim germ of truth somewhere
>in it.
>
>Scott
>
	Well, I read your story about Wellfleet donating some test
equipment for your router bashing and I think you're wrong.

	There isn't even a slim germ of truth indicating any conflict
of interest.

	I think what you have found is an unusual level of general
excitement on the part of commercial people who smell a large new
market and think Scott Bradner and his router bashing might be the key
to their getting a piece of that market.

	You're in the spotlight, but I, for one, feel more comfortable
about that than what we had before; which was a bunch of vendor
engineers and marketing people pushing, shoving, yelling, and lying
about their bridge and router performance.  At this point, we are
beginning to see some semblance of order, sort of like when the
teacher walks into the classroom and the spitballs stop flying.

	--Kent