RE: Whats going on at Cogent

[Kenny Taylor <kenny.taylor () kccd edu>]

I wasn't familiar with it, so thanks for sharing!  The Google search for 'he cogent cake' was entertaining.  Hard to 
believe that conflict is going on 9+ years..

Kenny


-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG <nanog-bounces () nanog org> On Behalf Of Owen DeLong
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 2:54 PM
To: nanog list <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: Whats going on at Cogent

Mainly I wasn’t expounding because I’m surprised to learn that there’s anyone on this list unfamiliar with it.

Didn’t want to bore people.

I tended to speak my mind while I worked for HE, I’m certainly not going to stop as a result of no longer working 
there. ;-)

Owen


> On Oct 24, 2018, at 04:51 , John Peach <john-nanog () peachfamily net> wrote:
>
> On 10/23/2018 08:47 PM, Ross Tajvar wrote:
> > Sorry all. I misread Owen's email. I'm not trying to air his private business to the list.
>
> There is no secret - a quick search on the terms HE, Cogent and peering (and possibly cake) will give you the answer. 
> Presumably Owen is not expounding because he used to work for HE.
>
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 8:20 PM Brad Knowles <brad () shub-internet org <mailto:brad () shub-internet org>> wrote:
> >    On Oct 23, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Ross Tajvar <ross () tajvar io
> >    <mailto:ross () tajvar io>> wrote:
> >     > I am also interested in hearing about this. I think it's relevant
> >    to the current thread.
> >    Speaking only for myself, there are companies where I have done
> >    short-term contracts, and where I am definitely not interested in
> >    any further employment opportunities with them.  OTOH, I am totally
> >    happy to continue to be a customer of theirs.
> >    Further discussion of that sort of thing would not be appropriate
> >    here.  If Josh is in the same boat with HE, I totally understand.
> >    For the Network Time Foundation (and related projects), I think
> >    we've been pretty happy as a customer of HE, but then we're just a
> >    small customer of theirs.
> >    --     Brad Knowles <brad () shub-internet org <mailto:brad () shub-internet org>>
> >    Please forgive any typos.  I'm fighting a failing keyboard on my
> >    laptop, in addition to having a broken finger.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> John
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