Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

Thu Oct 16 21:54:00 UTC 2003

I think that the number of people showing that they oppose Verisign would
still carry the day on the meaning of the tomatoes and red shirts.  Verisign
could try to delude themselves into believing it was ambiguous, but, I don't
think the press or the attendees would buy it.

Also, I don't think Verisign regards us as important enough to put that 
level
of effort into such an activity.  As such, I still think we should go ahead
and I think it will have some of the desired effects.  If not, it'll still
be fun and historic within NANOG.

Owen

--On Thursday, October 16, 2003 16:28 -0400 Gerald <gcoon at inch.com> wrote:

>
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, JC Dill wrote:
>
>> Great idea!  Can we count on Dan for tomato acquisition and for Owen for
>> post-protest dispersal to a foodbank?
>
> Having been a part of many fraternity pranks along this line, I might
> remind some of a glitch with this line of thinking.
>
> VeriSign employees read this list. (Verisign shows up with tomatoes & red
> "I love VeriSign" shirts saying if you like the idea...wear shirt && grab
> tomato to stack up front.)
>
> This works better spontaneously on site. Great idea, but being voiced in
> advance means your effort can be put to their use. (If you were playing a
> prank on my fraternity, that's what I'd do.)
>
> I don't think this idea, while amusing, will accomplish the goal. The bind
> patch and other methods of nullifying their corporate group think crap
> that makes them think this is a good idea is more our style. (Play
> smarter, not harder.)
>
> Gerald