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Re: A Message from Exodus (fwd)

  • From: Sanjay Dani
  • Date: Fri Oct 02 00:44:45 1998

> 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)."

Looks like revenue desperation. What with the tanking
stock market and too aggressive pricing, I would be looking
for signs of troubles at a company that uses the language in
the spam you quoted. Not someone I would trust to run my
data center.