[26828] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fw: Administrivia: ORBS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J.D. Falk)
Wed Jan 19 16:11:25 2000
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 13:08:13 -0800
From: "J.D. Falk" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <m12AxVI-000g5eC@most.weird.com>; from Greg A. Woods on Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:58:40AM -0500
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On 01/19/00, "Greg A. Woods" <woods@most.weird.com> wrote:
> That's funny. The kind of service you're arguing against is exactly
> what I expect of my telephone, my cell phone, my pager, etc. Why is an
> Internet carrier supposed to be any different. Get with the real world
> Paul and quit fussing about completely meaningless nonsense.
Speaking of the "real world," ISP's are not considered to be
common carriers by US law or any other country that I'm aware
of. If we were, of course, the whole issue would be VERY
different, and things like MAPS probably could not exist.
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