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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cut off AT&T? (Was: The death of USENET)
Message-ID: <2761@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 88 00:57:06 GMT
References: <651@scovert.sco.COM> <30.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Skokie, IL
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In article <30.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP>, tmanos@aocgl.UUCP (Theodore W. Manos) writes:
# Who's doing the whining?  Are you suggesting that you expect *everybody
# else* to pick up the communications tab for those few on the net (in
# terms of percentages) who are sending "legitimate business" mail back
# and forth to AT&T?  So the rest of the net is to carry the stuff that
# will serve some purpose to AT&T and it's business partners, even though
# AT&T refuses to do the same for the rest of the net?  Am I understanding
# this correctly?  Can't AT&T, and those site that "need" to talk to AT&T
# afford to connect to uunet or each other directly, and thus not burden
# the rest of the net with part of their cost of doing business?
# BTW, do you *know* for a fact that I/we *don't* do business with AT&T? :-)
# [Again folks, please note that I *don't* want to see AT&T cut off from
# the net....I think it would be a damned shame at the very least.
# However, if AT&T carries through with it's plan to cut off the rest of
# the net, then I think the rest of the net should cut them off too.
# However, I think that we *should* give them a "grace period" in
# recognition of what they've done for the net in the past.]

The ONLY THING that AT&T is planning to stop carrying, as best as I have heard
(there has been traffic on internal AT&T groups about this too) is MAIL
BETWEEN TWO NON-AT&T SITES.  NETNEWS WILL CONTINUE TO BE CARRIED.  The
analogous thing for the net to do would be to decline to carry AT&T's
mail BETWEEN TWO AT&T SITES.  (AT&T doesn't, and shouldn't, generate
site-to-site mail with such routings anyhow.)  So think about it a while
before you get sore and start planning "revenge."
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|------------Dan Levy------------|  THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HEREIN ARE MINE ONLY
|    AT&T  Data Systems Group    |  AND ARE NOT TO BE IMPUTED TO AT&T.
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