[164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: EP.NET ???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Wed Aug 2 14:21:27 1995
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: bilse@eu.net (Per Gregers Bilse)
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 11:07:47 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: bmanning@ISI.EDU, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199508021751.AA07318@jotun.EU.net> from "Per Gregers Bilse" at Aug 2, 95 07:51:08 pm
>
> I don't get this at all.
>
> On Jul 31, 6:51, bmanning@ISI.EDU <bmanning@ISI.EDU> wrote:
> > Welcome to the USA, Land of a thousand startup ISP's.
>
> "I want to be an Internet Provider."
>
> > They decline for a couple of reasons:
>
> "I don't have DNS running internally"
> "I perceive the EP node to be "outside" my domain"
> "I don't know/care"
> "Can somebody please set it up for me."
>
> Doesn't seem a productive way of raising the quality among new people
> (cf the CIDR FAQ under construction).
>
I look forward to the CIDR FAQ, although I am not sure it has any info
on domain naming or services that an ISP should offer or use.
As to your other query, I don't get it either. It may be too much
money and greed at work. I don't know, I just work here.
(I've -always- wanted to use that line! :)
--bill
