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Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging under non-disclosure?
- From: Scott Yoneyama
- Date: Fri May 02 13:19:08 1997
Part of the problem here is that UUNet
has gotten a little full of themselves. And I thought Sprint was bad. Combine
that with the fact that Bernie Ebbers now has his money grubbing hands on the
company and it's a bad combo. Gee, a powerful guy from the deep south assumes
control of a respected institution and exploits it, selling access to everything
related to it. Sounds oddly familiar!
Scott Yoneyama
Director
Starcom Service Corp.
206-448-4034
206-448-4485 fax
[email protected]
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From: Peter <[email protected]>
To: Tim Flavin <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Friday, May 02, 1997 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with
charging under non-disclosure?
Tim Flavin wrote:
>
> If a end user that happens to have choosen connectivity other than
UUnet
> wants to view the web pages of one of my clients, I've already paid
UUnet
> to carry that traffic, but now UUnet wants more from the peer to let
that
> traffic pass to their network. Sounds like being paid twice to carry
the
> same packets.
>
Dow Jones gathers economic news from around the globe and then sells
that
very same news about 10 ways-- the Wall Street Journal, the Asian Wall
Street Journal, the Wall Street Journal Europe, Dow Jones News
Retrieval,
the National Business Employment Weekly, the WSJ web site, the Dow Jones
News Ticker (if it still exists), Telerate... Have you informed the
president of Dow Jones that if he doesn't start giving away everything
but the WSJ that you're going to cancel your subscription?
I encourage you to vote with your dollars, as many others will.
Sounds like the great American way to me.
-peter
PS: Part of the great American way is learning from failure.
UU.NET's
success in their endeavor is by no means a sure thing.
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