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Re: Interesting AP Article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Mar 13 19:24:01 1996
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 19:17:06 -0500
To: "Larry J. Plato" <ljp@ans.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Perhaps it is 'interesting' because this issue has made it into
the mainstream popular press?
- paul
At 11:24 PM 3/13/96 +0000, Larry J. Plato wrote:
>Steve,
>
>I am not really trying to flame you but why is this article
>interesting? It is really a poorly written rehash of the
>filtering policy Sprint has discussed for the last 18 months.
>I don't agree w/ Sprint's position but I don't see this
>article as being particularly interesting. It's not even
>very well written. If anything I find it annoying and
>irresponsible that the author did not seem, IMHO, to
>research his topic very well. As far as I can tell he neither
>asked the opinion of Sprint, or any other major NSP, as to why
>someone would do this. Yet he had the call to title his
>article "Sprint says ..."
>
>I think this is sloppy, yellow, journalism.
>
>Larry Plato
>I speak for myself only
>#include <std.disclaimer>
>