[16669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft NOC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Sanders)
Fri May 8 13:43:51 1998
Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 12:12:32 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Sanders <rsanders@mindspring.net>
In-Reply-To: <199805081452.HAA17359@ptavv.es.net>
>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
