From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com> Could we stop this, please?

Actually, I enjoyed the recent humor!

Either Netrail's NAP will be useful or it won't be. It'll be useful as a local exchange if local providers go. It'll be useful as a place to sell transit of transit providers go.

But as to the rest of the thread, yes, it's pretty well exhausted. Except, I hope that the locals will join together and make this MIX/NAP work, or if it is overpriced or otherwise problematic, join together to make _something_ work....

It'll be useful as a place to offload huge chunks of Internet traffic between larger providers only if they go, which they don't seem to be interested in yet.

Jointly buy _transit_ service in a bigger pipe, and specify that you will only buy it at the NAP ;-)

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... If anyone is interested in setting up an alternative Atlanta NAP, I have a very spacious first-floor apartment which I am more than happy to volunteer to the effort. It's even somewhat sunk below ground level, and I think my neighbors wouldn't mind the occassional running of a generator.

I've already got 10MB/s, which puts the Northside-Circle-NAP on par with MAE-NY, right? ... Todd Graham Lewis Linux! Core Engineering Mindspring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com (800) 719 4664, x2804

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