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Re: MAE-West is up again ( RA Contract Value )

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Sun Jun 2 16:34:57 1996

From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 16:28:52 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: bmanning@isi.edu, nanog@linux.silkroad.com, khuon@merit.net,
        flatline@ironhorse.com, nanog@merit.net, bass@linux.silkroad.com
In-Reply-To: <199606021738.AA23030@zephyr.isi.edu> from "Bill Manning" at Jun 2, 96 10:38:19 am

> > > 		Just as a datapoint, one of them had set inital pricing
> > > 		at $60,000.00 per MONTH per connection. They have been
> > > 		talked down from that number, but it still would eat
> > > 		that paltry 10M award in much less than 5 years.
> > > 
> > > --bill
> > 
> > Which one?
> 
> 	Muckracking?  Is this really germain to the topic?  I don't
> 	think so.
> 
> --bill

Well, I'm sure it's of interest to the NANOG community - and is germane
to the topic of RA placement (if a NAP operator is trying to block placement
of RA machines).

Anyway, it's not a critical request-for-information, I was just curious.

Avi


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