Elad Cohen

Thu Sep 19 10:42:11 UTC 2019

Jon Sands <fohdeesha at gmail.com> writes:
> On 9/19/2019 6:12 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
>>
>> I just want to ruling on this.  Am I the first and only person who has ever
>> received a cartooney directly on the NANOG list?
>
> I can't remember if it was over NANOG or not, but back in 2010 a good
> friend of mine Mike Bailey (now deceased) received similar bold faced
> legal threats (mostly threats of DMCA if I remember right) from FDC
> Servers when he exposed to the WHT forums that they were at the time
> using power strips daisy chained, motherboards sitting on cardboard,
> etc in their chicago datacenter - he documented with pictures a number
> of fire code violations and was threatened with DMCA notices for
> it. Sadly the pictures no longer load, but oh boy were they special:
> https://web.archive.org/web/20100228172939/http://ub3r.net/fdc/readme.htm

You can see one of those pics here:
https://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/IT-watch-blog/fdcservers-colocation-data-center-gives-new-life-to-the-term-boxen/

> I do agree though, this should probably be taken way off-list.

Sure.  But there is still some popcorn left ;-)

Bjørn