[60775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: East Coast outage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Aitken)
Fri Aug 15 18:38:18 2003
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 18:27:53 -0400
From: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
To: alex@yuriev.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10308151751410.1563-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 05:52:49PM -0400, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> Rubbish.
>
> If in order to make it viable such energy needs to be subsidized then it is
> not "affordable".
That's a rather amusing position for someone in the IP world to take.
I seem to recall DARPA subsidizing research into packet-switched
computer networks, which (I'm told) gave rise to this "Internet" thing
I keep hearing about.
"Rubbish" indeed.
--Jeff
