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Let 100 Backbones Bloom!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Thu May 16 18:17:51 1991

Date: Thu, 16 May 91 17:16:43 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: tmn!cook@uunet.uu.net's message of Wed May 15 23:34:00 1991 <9105160336.AA07897@relay1.UU.NET>

><<MESSAGE from>> Gordon Cook                          15-MAY-91 23:34

>high speed stuff you gotta pay the difference?)  The other lower speed 
>backbones could presumably try to define their own market niches to 
>attract customers. This would be a free market - fair to all players game, 

Perhaps the lower-speed backbones would get the mail and news
traffic--generally stuff that doesn't have to move fast.

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