[896] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: internet consumer reports on state-wide IP networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Mandelbaum)
Wed Jul 3 09:54:05 1991
To: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
Cc: Craig Partridge <craig@sics.se>, com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 03 Jul 91 05:01:06 -0400.
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 91 09:36:04 -0400
From: Richard Mandelbaum <rma@tsar.cc.rochester.edu>
>If the net is ever going to be easy enough to use as the Interstate
>Highway System, there's gotta be good maps. So if a state network
>wants to offer me a good quality service, they need to provide good
>roadmaps.
Absolutely right! I find it almost impossible to use the phone system
because the carriers refuse to tell me how they are routing my
phone calls. I guess that was why Western Union decided not to invest
in telephones. They knew that without telephone routing maps it would
never be as easy to make a phone call as use the Highway system.
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