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Joe McGuckin wrote: > My impression of the beer-n-gear is that it was just like all the > other ones - e.g. Juniper, Cisco, etc showed off their latest > heavy iron and there was free finger food & beer. > > If you came to NANOG expecting to return home with a suitcase > stuffed full of free frisbees, t-shirts and key chains - might > I suggest that you attend a gift industry conference next time? > > Joe > > -- > > Joe McGuckin > > ViaNet Communications > 994 San Antonio Road > Palo Alto, CA 94303 > > Phone: 650-969-2203 > Cell: 650-207-0372 > Fax: 650-969-2124 FWIW, there has been a huge decline in the amount of swag generally since the market meltdown. The difference between, say, last year's COMNET and this year's is two shopping bags versus one t-shirt and a few pens. (My son loves this kind of stuff.) -- Regards Marshall Eubanks T.M. Eubanks Multicast Technologies, Inc 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 410 Fairfax, Virginia 22030 Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609 e-mail : [email protected] [email protected] http://www.on-the-i.com http://www.buzzwaves.com
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