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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Tue Feb 21 13:06:55 2006

From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:27:56 GMT
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


QED: AT&T/SBC also does this for their DSL subscribers...

- ferg


-- Larry Smith <lesmith@ecsis.net> wrote:

The problem with discussing AOL and "large provider" in the same sentenc=
e is =

that the complete AOL (connection, desktop, tools, etc) function are AOL=
 =

controlled (walled garden) so they have the capability of doing much mor=
e in =

that arena that other providers.

[snip]

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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