[192443] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CenturyLink in Advanced Talks to Merge With Level 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luke Guillory)
Fri Oct 28 15:23:25 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Luke Guillory <lguillory@reservetele.com>
To: Timothy Lister <incudie@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 19:23:19 +0000
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