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Re: Microsoft NOC?

  • From: Robert Sanders
  • Date: Fri May 08 13:42:01 1998 
>The reason it is imperative that there be a telephone number for an
>ISP is that it's really hard to use e-mail to contact an ISP if the
>network connectivity to the ISP is not working.

This ought to make one a little less sanguine about the prospect of
unifying the packet data and voice networks in a "one pipe carries it all"
model.  I suppose there's always smoke signals.

regards,
  -- Robert