Re: the Intercage mess

[Robert Bonomi <bonomi () mail r-bonomi com>]

> From nanog-bounces () nanog org  Thu Sep 25 10:45:34 2008
> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:42:22 -0700
> From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins () isc org>
> To: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: the Intercage mess
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:24:17AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > John Bambenek wrote:
>
> > shall we at least apply a veneer of civilization?
>
> I think the current state of the art in civilized, peaceful,
> extralegal negotiation of reasonable behaviour expected of businessmen
> and their peers is a form of social ostracism given its name in 1880
> when the Irish Land League bade everyone in Mayo county, Ireland not
> to engage economically or otherwise with Captain Charles Boycott...a
> land owner who had set his rent very high, and was evicting anyone who
> deigned to complain of it (fully within his legal authority, but
> outside the realms of what the people saw as reasonable).
>
> If anyone can think of better, we'll have to call it "Intercaging".

If someone were to slap a light-hearted name on the matter, could that be 
considered Atrivio-al mistake?    *groan*