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Re: clarity

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun May 1 12:07:01 2005

Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 12:03:58 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <2147483647.1114575177@[172.17.1.152]>; from Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:12:57AM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 04:12:57AM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > If you want to compare this to ISP, it would be like me having peering
> > agreement and direct connection with few dozen content providers
> > and only giving access to users to those few dozen websites.
> 
> Perhaps I should have used electric companies as a better example.

No, I think that water is actually better: it's easier for an end-user
to cause problems with delivered water than with delivered
electricity... though admittedly *neither* is "easy", as we usually use
that term.

Cheers,
-- jra
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