On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 07:49:06AM -0700, Robert Bowman wrote:
And, in actuality, the business decision is quite easy--BBN isn't nearly enough of a player to pull a stunt like this. Obviously their egos are larger than their network, but egos don't route packets very well.
I can't imagine why they might have thought they would be... UUnet apparently isn't; and their backbone hauls a _lot_ more bytes than BBN's does... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com