To:
Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
"David R. Conrad" <david.conrad@nominum.com>
Date:
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:26:36 -0800
In-Reply-To:
<E145ZBG-0001S8-00@roam.psg.com>
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Commercial Advantages of Hosting Name Servers
99% of all statistics are crap
-- Theodore Sturgeon
Rgds,
-drc
At 12:04 PM 12/11/2000 -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > I guess I've just become too cynical about what marketing folks will
> > do. Perhaps you're right. Perhaps no ISP's marketing folks would say
> > "since we run one of the nameservers for <blah>, it is obvious that
> > responses to requests to <blah> would be better than for our
> > competitors." or "since we run one of the nameservers for <blah>, our
> > network is obviously better than our competitor who doesn't." (regardless
> > of how true such statements might be).
>
>87.3% of the customers do not understand/care. 12.5% of the customers know
>it's rubbish. my competitors can have the other 0.2%
>
>randy