Re: Internic does it again

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 02:04:56PM -0500, Joe Shaw wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > The major complaint I hear about the InterNIC isn't that they're
> > arrogant, it's that their a black hole.  Or worse, a roach motel:
> > complaints check in, but they don't check out.
> >
> > That's exactly the problem I have with them.  They need a PR person,
> > with an extensive background in the culture of the net, and the power
> > to get things done... and they need one _now_.
>
> Exactly.  If NSI doesn't have someone who head up pr doing the work of
> informing the net community of what problems it's having, then rumors
> start happening.  Rumors spread out, and get picked up by the media.
> Since the media is obviously a part of this list (we sure get quoted a
> lot), these stories of NSI outages start making the news.  The price of
> NSI stock drops, and NSI's stockholders are not happy.  Life is not good
> for NSI.  So, doesn't it make sense to just get someone to do the PR job?

Sorry, Joe.  Ms. Baker at DEC tells me we're off topic.

Cheers,
-- jra
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