[108883] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint / Cogent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Fri Oct 31 11:20:10 2008
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:19:49 +0000
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <200810311323.m9VDNCcI081807@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On 31/10/2008 13:23, Joe Greco wrote:
> It is certainly not "just" a bullying tactic. It may be "A" bullying
> tactic, I won't even attempt to guess at the intent, but the tactic also
> has the very real side effect of re-establishing full connectivity to
> Sprint-connected sites that lose it.
you-re right - it's a bullying tactic, not "just a". Apart from the sales
and publicity stunt value, it will put a certain amount of pressure on
Sprint to actually do something about the problem rather than sit back,
ignore it and hope it goes away.
Nick
