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But I am still paying Sprint for transit, something I am philosophically opposed to. Yes, the traffic is less, but why should I pay for transit, not use it, and make my life more complex, as you point out? Bob >---------- >From: Mike Leber[SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, May 02, 1997 6:17 PM >To: Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) >Cc: 'James Saker'; '[email protected]' >Subject: RE: UUNET settlement - A call to arms? > > >On Fri, 2 May 1997, Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH) wrote: >> What I would like to do is to connect to, for example, Sprint *just to >> get to folks who >> buy from Sprint*, not to transit through them to get to a NAP someplace. > >You can already do this. > >Simply buy a T1 from Sprint and filter out all of the non Sprint routes. >Where you might have normally purchased 10 Mbps transit service, you can >now use just a T1 with the appropriate filters. It will become a pain to >load balance and capacity plan all of those little pipes (increased >expense and complexity), but hey, if you don't want to or can't use an >exchange point this is an alternative. > >But I digress... ;) > >Mike. > >+------------------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C -------------------+ >| Mike Leber Direct Internet Connections Voice 408 282 1540 | >| Hurricane Electric Web Hosting & Co-location Fax 408 971 3340 | >| [email protected] http://www.he.net | >+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - |