On 09/08/2016 02:52 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Dave, I wasn't trying to start an argument.
Oh yes you certainly were.
That's ridiculous.
Look at the list archives.
Oh, but there is! You started out by being condescending and insulting to me, to which I will respond in kind because I'm not there in person to do anything further.
That's REALLY ridiculous.
Look at the list archives again.
I know you think that. You're wrong. I was there, I was involved. You were neither there, nor were you involved.
Dave, by that logic nobody can ever again write about ENIAC, World War I, the Roman Empire, or cavemen, because we weren't there.
Once again: Wrong. But if you happen to come across someone who WAS there, you'd better be man enough to listen to them.
Your bestowal of credit and accolades is misdirected. I can teach you all of this history if you want to learn it, but you have to be willing to listen.
You were an engineer at an early ISP. I get that and I respect it. It doesn't make you the leading authority on the early history of the Internet, and doesn't mean nobody else knows anything.
Actually, as far as my (rather large) corner of it, that's exactly what it means. Yes, I was an engineer at an early ISP, if you'd like to belittle my involvement to that point. One of the FIRST ISPs, which became one of the LARGEST. I also attended NANOG meetings and participated in the very first deployments of classless netblock routing, and deployed a network that spanned the entire country. Not too many people were there. And more importantly, YOU were not. I suggest you quit while you're ahead. I am exercising great restraint here. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA