[44695] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: USGS returns to the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Sun Dec 9 19:56:07 2001
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:54:40 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Alan Hannan <alan@routingloop.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Alan Hannan wrote:
> > It is inaccurate to say that a judge closed down @home.
> >
> > Rather, a judge allowed @home to terminate service with
> > certain service providers.
>
> You are absolutely, positively 100% correct.
>
> It is also inaccurate to say the judge shutdown the Department
> of Interior Internet. The Department of Interior (contractors)
> did it themselves just like @Home's executives and @Home
> engineers terminated access to its network.
A judge *ordered* the DOI offline. A different judge *allowed* Excite@home
to terminate service against the wishes of the cable companies that
Excite had contracts with. They are indeed two different things.
