[11229] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Universities (was: What is an "Internet reseller"?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sat Mar 26 03:55:38 1994
To: "Glenn S. Tenney" <tenney@netcom.com>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 23 Mar 1994 21:37:51 -0800.
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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 1994 23:54:23 -0500
From: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>
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] From: "Glenn S. Tenney" <tenney@netcom.com>
] Subject: Re: Universities (was: What is an "Internet reseller"?)
] Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 21:37:51 -0800
] ...
] I suggest, Karl, that since you appear to be the ONLY one with these views,
] and you don't speak for the CIX, we should just:
]
] (a) agree everyone disagrees with you,
] (b) no other CIX member agrees with you since they have yet to be heard from,
] (c) the CIX itself must not agree with you since no board member or officer
] has responded, and
] (d) wait for someone to make a stink about something that's being done all
] over the world with no one complaining,
]
] and get com-priv back to other discussions...
Glenn,
The fact that no other CIX members (board members or otherwise) have
commented on the current com-priv discussion cannot be safely interpeted
as a sign of agreement OR disagreement with Karl's views. It is more
likely that these providers are quite busy, and engaging in such discussions
is not a priority compared to other business at hand. Each member has their
own business to attend to and one would expect the Executive Director
(Bill Washburn) has to focus his efforts on prospective members.
There are more pressing issues before the CIX than discussions on com-priv,
and it shouldn't surprise anyone that addressing the needs of the members
comes first. Engaging in meaningful discussion on public mailing lists
has a real cost and your need for continuous dialogue may not be the best
investment of the CIX's finite resources. Perhaps the CIX should up its
fees by another $2K per member so that a professsional PR contact can be
available for com-priv inquisitions?
/John
