[46388] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Exodus/C&W Depeering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Mar 26 15:44:52 2002
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Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:40:58 +0200
To: smd@clock.org (Sean M. Doran), sean@donelan.com
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: cflores@adelphiacom.net, cparker@starnetusa.net, nanog@merit.edu
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At 11:49 AM 26-03-02 -0800, Sean M. Doran wrote:
>the Invisible Hand said you should talk to the face instead. Go figure.
>
>A monk I met on the street, however, said: "Even stupid companies can make
>smart decisions sometimes, the trouble is that you can only tell in hindsight
>whether the choices made were the right ones".
>
>I was also given a copy of a book by Lao Tze before the monk was
>chased off by aggressive chanters and bongo-drummers from a rival sect.
>Central London is weird.
I think in business they should rather be reading Sun Tzu.
-Hank
> Sean.
>
>| AS3561 (InternetMCI) was once the number 1 ISP, by almost every
>| measure that existed. The marketplace has not been kind to C&W
>| since they bought AS3561. Why isn't Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
>| rewarding C&W? Is C&W number 5 or 6 these days?
