Re: Beer and Gear surprise

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () 21rst-century com>]

Joe McGuckin wrote:

> My impression of the beer-n-gear is that it was just like all the
> other ones - e.g. Juniper, Cisco, etc showed off their latest
> heavy iron and there was free finger food & beer.
>
> If you came to NANOG expecting to return home with a suitcase
> stuffed full of free frisbees, t-shirts and key chains - might
> I suggest that you attend a gift industry conference next time?
>
> Joe
>
> --
>
> Joe McGuckin
>
> ViaNet Communications
> 994 San Antonio Road
> Palo Alto, CA  94303
>
> Phone: 650-969-2203
> Cell:  650-207-0372
> Fax:   650-969-2124

FWIW, there has been a huge decline in the amount of swag generally since the market meltdown.
The difference between, say, last year's COMNET and this year's is two shopping bags versus
one t-shirt and a few pens. (My son loves this kind of stuff.)

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