[43087] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean M. Doran)
Fri Sep 28 20:46:40 2001
To: avg@exigengroup.com, sean@donelan.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Message-Id: <20010929004524.6D59CC7930@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:45:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean Donelan wrote:
| Sprint kept the filters on for years afterwards. It may have taken
| the clueless salespeople a few years, but they eventually did figure out
| how to recite the magic words "buy your circuit from sprint and you
| won't have problems with filters" was a way to win a sale.
"Thank you even more clueless competitors."
| And who could forget the popular "Don't buy a circuit from small ISP, because
| they won't be able to get past the Internet filters." I went through
| a half-dozen Sprint sales people in different parts of the country,
| and by 1996 or so they all had the spiel down pat.
Wouldn't it have been easier for small ISP to just aggregate?
I mean, /19s got through after all!
The ONLY reason this became a competitive advantage for Sprint
was because it's COMPETITORS didn't have the brains to impose
a similar filter.
Honestly, nobody anticipated they'd be so stupid, but good luck
is good luck....
Sean. (who had left by the time of "a few years")
