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Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses
From: mikea <mikea () mikea ath cx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:26:09 -0600
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:20:54PM -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote:
On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:53 22PM, mikea wrote:On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26:58PM -0800, Mark Keymer wrote:What I don't understand is I can only guess they must have a IT team. And Maybe even 1 or more people that view this list. Why don't they just talk to there own staff about the issues? Maybe one of the IT guess saw the issues talked about the articles and contacted the news team about the bad info. I donno. I agree they kind of did a poor job on this. If you work at FOX maybe you should help get the news guys on the right page. :)My experience working with newspaper and TV reporters leads me to believe that they can't recognize when they're on the wrong page, and will sacrifice accuracy to catchy titles and text "simplified" to the point of being ludicrously wrong -- at least when it comes to topics such as computers, networking, and spam. I certainly don't expect any better of Fox.Mmm... I've dealt with the press a lot. In general, the reporters from well-respected news organizations really are a lot better. One can argue cause and effect; the fact remains that when I've talked to the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the Washington Post, I've been a lot happier with what appeared than when, say, I've spoken with (quite literally) Entertainment Weekly. No, the major outlets haven't been perfect, and I've occasionally spoken with reporters who, shall we say, didn't know which end the high-order bit was on; in general, though, my comments hold. Fox? Since I don't see that the Tea Party has any particular axe to grind here (the administration is neither pushing IPv6 on a reluctant private sector nor is it responsible for the forthcoming debacle), they're probably in the middle of the pack.
Mine was considerably less exalted: network TV stations and the local poor excuse for a newspaper. The newspaper reporter tried, but just got it *so* wrong. The TV folks didn't even try, and got it even wronger. I was being interviewed on spam and botnets, which is a fairly arcane topic, and wasn't surprised. -- Mike Andrews, W5EGO mikea () mikea ath cx Tired old sysadmin
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- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses, (continued)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Kee Hinckley (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Jay Ashworth (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses david raistrick (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses david raistrick (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Jeff Kell (Jan 27)
- RE: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses George, Wes E [NTK] (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Robert Mathews (OSIA) (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Mark Keymer (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses mikea (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Steven Bellovin (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses mikea (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Lamar Owen (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses todd glassey (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Paul Graydon (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Owen DeLong (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Jay Ashworth (Jan 27)
- RE: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses George Bonser (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Christopher Morrow (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Owen DeLong (Jan 27)
- Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses Jared Mauch (Jan 27)