Dick; It's nice to hear someone recognize Sprint's early understanding of how to approach the commercial Internet market with a two-pronged high/low strategy. Too bad the one who figured it out is no longer associated with SprintLink. --Kent At 01:03 AM 1/29/96 -0500, Dick St.Peters wrote:

Were it not for Sprint, I wouldn't exist. ... Thanks in part to Sprint, that side business has grown into a network of four POPs bringing the Internet to NY State's Adirondack region. There's no fortune to be made here, but there's a living in it. It's what I wanted to do, and I couldn't have done it without Sprint.

Sean Doran's recent posting about how the Sprints aren't out to squash us little guys but in fact are dependent on us was remarkably like the way I used to explain Sprint's position during the CIX filtering war in summer of '94. In fact, I think he stole those ideas from me :)

Sprint is big, and they're busy, and it can be damnably hard to get their attention (hence my posting), but I'm here because they helped me when I needed help and backed me politically and operationally when I needed backing. Out here in the woods, things like that still matter. ...