[16731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Microsoft NOC?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon May 11 11:02:27 1998
Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 11:47:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@gid.net>
cc: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>, Kurt Parent <kparent@microsoft.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199805082355.TAA12621@merit.edu>
My personal backup has always been carrier-pigeon.
Let's not forget voice-over-cable and other voice-over-(pudding...)
solutions that haven't been proven in mission-critical ways yet.
-Deepak.
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Justin W. Newton wrote:
> At 07:52 AM 5/8/98 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>
>
> >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.
>
> Which will certainly be interesting when/if Voice Over IP happens. Hmm,
> whats next, network down, please use snail mail?
>
> Justin W. Newton
>
>
