[13699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTE to acquire Genuity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mec@ummagumma.ops.usa.net)
Fri Nov 14 13:34:20 1997
From: mec@ummagumma.ops.usa.net
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:24:56 -0700 (MST)
To: Aaron France <aaron@hooked.net>
cc: "Chris Cook, Net Asset LLC" <ccook@netasset.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971114163601.6031A-100000@fish.hooked.net>
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Aaron France wrote:
> UUNet runs MSN's network.
> I'm sure this is not a cheap operation.
> That money more than likely went into network implementation
> costs, as building a private nationwide dialup network can be
> quite costly.
>
> typical nanog bitter-batter: making assumptions based upon half
> truths.
>
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/7404.html
yeah, cut out the bitter-batter
;)