[44542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: @Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri Nov 30 19:35:31 2001
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:30:33 -0500
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <171DAAD54475984F8F41345A0945DF9C39EC49@hqexchange.presidio.com>; from jsmith@PRESIDIO.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:05:54PM -0500
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On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:05:54PM -0500, James Smith wrote:
> Interesting to note that even though the govt is all for getting everyone on
> the "Information Superhigway", no mention is made of any government
> sponsored plan to prevent the service from going dark.
>
> If this were a provider of POTS, and it was dialtone being turned off, would
> there would be some scrambling by the govt to prevent it?
If someone turns off your cable modem, are you unable to access
the "information superhighway"? I doubt people pitched their modems
in the physical sense.
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