[9164] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTE to acquire BBN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed May 7 15:43:29 1997
To: richard welty <welty@balltown.cma.com>
cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>, Chris Steinke <cjs@cinenet.net>,
nanog@merit.edu, Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net>,
Shahril Ibrahim <si@cinenet.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 1997 14:43:37 EDT."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 15:15:44 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
richard welty writes:
> Charles Sprickman wrote:
> > You sir, have not dealt with NYNEX. They are not only stupid, but
> > extremely rude. Where else do you have to beg for dialtone? How many MFS
> > T1 lines can be *whoops* installed wrong the first three times? They are
> > evil, evil, evil, and I will leave the ISP business if they ever buy a
> > national ISP. Blech.
>
> you're being awfully mild about nynex.
>
> nynex is without question the worst local telco in the
> known universe.
You obviously have never dealt with PTTs in countries like Greece or
India, or for that matter, in subsaharan Africa...
Perry
