Uggggh. So many people have requested this privately, I can't take it!

So, here goes. Note that some of the information in the spam is totally false. Some is just plain funny/silly, such as:

"If GTE/BBN has a brown-out tomorrow, their customers are out of luck if their network fails. At Exodus, traffic for all of our customers would just get rerouted either though our own backbone, or through another major Internet carrier (like UUNet)."

Looks like revenue desperation. What with the tanking stock market and too aggressive pricing, I would be looking for signs of troubles at a company that uses the language in the spam you quoted. Not someone I would trust to run my data center.