[9932] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Information re: Cyberpromo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark E Larson)
Mon Jun 9 09:30:36 1997
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 09:34:19 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Mark E Larson <mlarson@rust.net>
Hmmmm. Let's see. Shutoff peering with AGIS. Tell all their customers to
leave. Hoping for some business :)
At 11:30 PM 6/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>AGIS has some 175 or so reseller customers, some of whom are largeish.
>A number of those are dual-homed or peer with "nearly everyone" at
>one or more exchange points, though. In the last few weeks, I've seen
>over 10 midsized ISPs announce they were leaving AGIS, many more are talking
>about doing so. Both because of ongoing spam support and their low
>quality of service (some inherent, some apparently people attacking
>Cyberpromo and/or AGIS after being spammed, unfortunately) I now
>recommend to all the ISPs I do or have consulted with that are
>AGIS customers that they leave.
>
>I've never actually seen a large network kill itself before.
>It looks like they've got circa 6 months to live at this rate.
>This is an interesting process...
>
>-george william herbert
>gherbert@crl.com
>Disclaimer: I speak for nobody, not even my cats.
>
>
Mark E Larson
Chief Engineer
Senior Network Architect
RUSTnet Inc.
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