Nigel, Nanog: The original intent of the inquiry was not to bring into question the intelligence of Nigel; I can't speak to that since I don't know him, nor did I even know of him. My communication also does not speak to the potential success of PacketExchange. My question was simply a curiosity ping of _why_ people peer with each other; in my mind, it had always, and never not, been a way to reduce cost of traffic sent/rec'd. I was curious as to whether or not others had a similar view to mine. On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Nigel Titley wrote:
Folks,
I'm stood to one side up to now, but now this thread is drifting over to personal abuse.
I was the engineer in question, and I was most certainly not trying to hoodwink or bamboozle. Neither am I an ignorant sales-droid, as someone else has said. Those of you who know me, as I think that a fair number of people on this list do, will vouch for my honesty, and my pedigree in the industry.
I think Alex misunderstood what I was trying to say, and since we were shouting at each other down a very bad phone line with a loudspeaking phone at either end, he's got a certain amount of excuse.
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