[10146] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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Re: Not even for transit to the CIX?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wes Clark)
Tue Feb 8 22:42:13 1994

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 1994 22:24:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Wes Clark <wclark@pioneer.uspto.gov>
To: Doug Luce <doug@lm.net>
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.07.9402081905.X230-a100000@epicycle.lm.com>

"Rosebud?!?" Oh, come on! They didn't say that...

On Tue, 8 Feb 1994, Doug Luce wrote:

> When inquiring about PSI's dedicated IP services, I was told that PSI
> would not sell to Telerama.  The sales representative explained that
> Telerama represents competition.  Upon pressing further, and mentioning
> PSI's other competitors, I was treated with a rant that began "but they
> don't own their own backbone...and one day we will expand our
> services...we're running cable in beta throughout Cambridge...oh, we're
> not...you're sure...but the press release...the...oh...rosebud...rosebud...."
> 
> (Note that I did not speak a word throughout the above quoted monologue.)
> 
> Doug Luce
> Telerama Public Access Internet
> Com-Priv Digest Maintainer (write com-priv-digest-request@telerama.lm.com)
> 
> 
> 
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