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Well said! Gee, you mean that this *is* really a business?? Best regards, David Van Allen - You Tools Corporation / FASTNET(tm) [email protected] (610) 289-1100 http://www.fast.net FASTNET - PA/NJ/DE Internet Solutions >-----Original Message----- >From: Stephen Balbach [SMTP:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, May 02, 1997 6:43 AM >To: Gordon Cook >Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] >Subject: Re: UUNET Pulling Peering Agreements & replacing them with charging >under non-disclosure? > > >> First it was AGIS (but who cares about AGIS?). Now UUNET. Tomorrow who? >> MCI? As UUNET and others of the big five move to consolidate their >> markets.......... let UUNET put the smaller national backbones against the >> wall and whom do the rest of ISP's have to rely on? Those ISPs who did >> not get hit in UUNET's first round of cuts. Will you get it in the neck in >> the second or the third round? > >The only thing UUNET is cutting is Internet trees, and there are some who >are protesting by hugging them. Clear out the chaff for next seasons >crops. > >Buying connectivity from an ISP who peers with UUNET, or buying direct >from UUNET, is a lot cheaper then building a national DS-3/OC-3 backbone >and trying to be default free - this is not about UUNET cuting throats, >it's about large and small ISP's examining thier business model. > > >.stb > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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