[20076] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A Message from Exodus (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani)
Fri Oct 2 00:40:24 1998
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 16:26:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
Reply-To: Sanjay Dani <sanjay@professionals.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> 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)."
Looks like revenue desperation. What with the tanking
stock market and too aggressive pricing, I would be looking
for signs of troubles at a company that uses the language in
the spam you quoted. Not someone I would trust to run my
data center.
