Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  connect: Network is unreachable, (or) I want my FTP
Message-ID: <4450@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 90 03:34:53 GMT
References: <9010132308.AA16298@kiddo.merit.edu>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <9010132308.AA16298@kiddo.merit.edu> hwb@MERIT.EDU (Hans-Werner Braun) writes:
>Given all your frequent interactions with the Merit/UMnet/NSFNET NOC with
>the hope for increased knowledge on your part about how things interact, I
>find it regrettable that you have to air your frustrations in public, in
>particular given the tone you used...You are otherwise wasting alot of time,
>effort and bandwidth.

Sitting here, it is not at all clear which was the more obnoxious message, nor
which the greater waste of bandwidth.  I'd rather read a bit of enthusiastic
questioning given the spirit of this list than the same amount of pompous
bureaucratese offered in response.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu