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Re: A Message from Exodus (fwd)

  • From: Dean Anderson
  • Date: Thu Oct 01 18:59:52 1998

At 05:54 PM 10/1/98 -0400, Adam Rothschild wrote:
>Uggggh.  So many people have requested this privately, I can't take it!
>
>So, here goes.  Note that some of the information in the spam is totally
>false.  Some is just plain funny/silly, such as:
>
>"If GTE/BBN has a brown-out tomorrow, their customers are out of luck if
>their network fails. At Exodus, traffic for all of our customers would
>just get rerouted either though our own backbone, or through another major
>Internet carrier (like UUNet)."

IF their network failed, they would be out of luck... ;-)  IF the GTE
customer fails, Exodus customers would get rerouted... Thats reassuring ;-)

Marketing speak. Gotta love it.

		--Dean

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