Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Joe Abley
On 10-Oct-2007, at 1256, Sean Figgins wrote: Spam, on the other hand, always seemed to be a scarlet topic here. If someone mentions spam or mail servers, there are those here that start breathing fire and claiming that their email should not be subject to spam filters. I don't know that

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Andy Davidson
On 10 Oct 2007, at 17:56, Sean Figgins wrote: Spam, on the other hand, always seemed to be a scarlet topic here. If someone mentions spam or mail servers, there are those here that start breathing fire and claiming that their email should not be subject to spam filters. I don't know

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Stephen Wilcox
On 10 Oct 2007, at 17:56, Sean Figgins wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: We talk a lot about what is on-topic. I get why there is a question about botnets - they affect the network, but don't really relate to routing, so there are arguments on both sides. I'm a bit more confused about

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007, Sean Figgins wrote: [adrian chadd] These topics however seem altrustic ; why would someone talk about what gives them an edge over their competitors? If nobody ever talked about the above topics, then we would not have an Internet today. Despite what CxOs may

Re: meeting format/content

2007-10-10 Thread Sean Figgins
Adrian Chadd wrote: Today's networking area is very very different from where I'm sitting. Networking can be learnt reasonably successful from a book and consultants are called in when things aren't quite working right or its time for an upgrade. I have not met many consultants that I would