[11376] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: First post to the list
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Wed Mar 30 17:08:38 1994
From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
To: stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 19:18:08 -0600 (CST)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, poole@magnolia.eunet.ch, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9403300046.AA02799@bird.crd.Ge.Com> from "Dick St.Peters" at Mar 29, 94 07:46:56 pm
> >From: karl@mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
> >I would think that two offices 100' apart in two buildings are
> >"geographically distinct locations".
>
> How about two offices a quarter of a mile apart in the *same* building?
Big building. :-)
> >This was a question I asked when Bill Washburn and I were talking about
> >this stuff before MCSNet joined.
>
> And he said ... ?
My question was phrased as a question as to whether we were <elegible> for
membership, rather than whether we <should> join. Basically, his answer
was that if we're providing service to geographically diverse locations....
:-)
I said "so two POPs 20 miles apart counts" and he said "certainly". That
was enough for my purpose, so I dropped it there.
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