9 Dec
2001
9 Dec
'01
7:54 p.m.
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Alan Hannan wrote:
It is inaccurate to say that a judge closed down @home.
Rather, a judge allowed @home to terminate service with certain service providers.
You are absolutely, positively 100% correct.
It is also inaccurate to say the judge shutdown the Department of Interior Internet. The Department of Interior (contractors) did it themselves just like @Home's executives and @Home engineers terminated access to its network.
A judge *ordered* the DOI offline. A different judge *allowed* Excite@home to terminate service against the wishes of the cable companies that Excite had contracts with. They are indeed two different things.