[19544] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTEI/Exodus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Sep 16 18:10:15 1998
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:56:16 -0400
To: "Chris A. Icide" <chris@skycache.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>
Cc: "Justin W. Newton" <justin-inet@gid.net>, list@inet-access.net,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809161523.LAA12438@nimbus.skycache.com>
At 11:23 AM 09/16/1998 -0400, Chris A. Icide wrote:
>Actually, after reading it, I found it somewhat deragatory on the part
>of GTE. Note that it insinuates that GTE has helped Exodus increase the
>speed on thier Network. If you read it without really knowing how this
>all works, you might think that GTE is performing charity work.
While GTE does bunches of charity work (GTE Foundation?), it's generally
for worthy non-profit causes...
Avoiding charity work was what led us to the discussion of
wildly asymmetric peers in a shortest-exit world...
:-)
/John
