RE: RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-29 Thread Celeste Anderson
- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Brett Watson Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 12:35 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RIP: Bill Manning I was saddened to see this yesterday, that Bill Manning had passed. I was surprised this morning that it hadn’t hit NANOG yet but thought I’d post something because I

Re: RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-28 Thread Ray Wong
I also had the good fortune of working with Bill. I learned a lot from him, both while he was officially our vendor, and afterwards, when he was always ready and willing to provide insight and advice when I asked. He was absolutely one of those rare individuals who would never hesitate to help out

Re: RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-28 Thread Don Wilder
I too am saddened by this news. I had the honor to work with Bill during our time together at ARIN. The world is dimmed by his passing. - Don Wilder - Programming today is a race between software engineers stri

Re: RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-27 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Chris Caputo posted the following to the SIX mailing list a few days ago. I think this really shows Bill in action, helping a new IX get set up. He will be missed. Bill Manning died unexpectedly this morning, January 25th, at his home. It was Bill's presentations on June 5th, 1997 at NANOG in Tam

Re: RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-27 Thread Rabbi Rob Thomas
Dear team, I was very sad when I heard this news. Bill was a fun and friendly presence, and patiently mentored me in my early days. I’ll never forget when he scrawled “I love bots” on one of my NANOG badges. I still have it. :) I had the fortune to be on a couple of panels with him, and I

Re: RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-27 Thread Mel Beckman
rett Watson Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: RIP: Bill Manning Sad to hear about Bill. I also began my career at a small ISP in Houston where we also had a T1 to SESQUINET, and Bill was already a legend to us Jr. Sysadmins in town in 1995/96. -Andrew On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 2:36 PM Brett Wa

Re: RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-27 Thread Andrew Smith
Sad to hear about Bill. I also began my career at a small ISP in Houston where we also had a T1 to SESQUINET, and Bill was already a legend to us Jr. Sysadmins in town in 1995/96. -Andrew On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 2:36 PM Brett Watson wrote: > I was saddened to see this yesterday, that Bill Mann

RIP: Bill Manning

2020-01-27 Thread Brett Watson
I was saddened to see this yesterday, that Bill Manning had passed. I was surprised this morning that it hadn’t hit NANOG yet but thought I’d post something because I have a ton of respect for Bill as I’m sure many here do. I met Bill as a very young, thought-I-knew-everything network engineer a