[20041] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A Message from Exodus (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Thu Oct 1 18:53:28 1998
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 18:40:56 -0400
To: Adam Rothschild <asr@millburn.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
At 05:54 PM 10/1/98 -0400, Adam Rothschild wrote:
>Uggggh. So many people have requested this privately, I can't take it!
>
>So, here goes. Note that some of the information in the spam is totally
>false. Some is just plain funny/silly, such as:
>
>"If GTE/BBN has a brown-out tomorrow, their customers are out of luck if
>their network fails. At Exodus, traffic for all of our customers would
>just get rerouted either though our own backbone, or through another major
>Internet carrier (like UUNet)."
IF their network failed, they would be out of luck... ;-) IF the GTE
customer fails, Exodus customers would get rerouted... Thats reassuring ;-)
Marketing speak. Gotta love it.
--Dean
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