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RE: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?

  • From: Greg A. Woods
  • Date: Sun Nov 19 20:02:32 2000

[ On Sunday, November 19, 2000 at 12:53:45 (-0800), Roeland Meyer wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Operational impact of filtering SMB/NETBIOS traffic?
>
> Customer retention via fear mechanism has always been abhorent to me. They
> usually are intelligent enough to realize that removing the source of the
> fear is a good-thing<tm>.

One way or another....   Either he's afraid of you, or you're afraid of
him.  :-)

> Exactly the case, most of the time. What many techies don't understand that
> a fearful customer is one whom will not be a repeat customer.

Well, actually, it's really a matter of whether or not he trusts you.

If not then you probably shouldn't want him as a (repeat) customer.

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							Greg A. Woods

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