Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!glee
From: glee@cognos.uucp (Godfrey Lee)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Cut off AT&T? (Was: The death of USENET)
Message-ID: <3381@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 14:00:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: cognos.3381
References: <651@scovert.sco.COM> <30.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> <2761@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: glee@cognos.UUCP (Godfrey Lee)
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2761@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>The ONLY THING that AT&T is planning to stop carrying [...] is MAIL
>BETWEEN TWO NON-AT&T SITES.
>The analogous thing for the net to do would be to decline to carry AT&T's
>mail BETWEEN TWO AT&T SITES.

This is true iff #_of_ATT_sites == #_of_NON_ATT_sites, a bit arrogant
don't you think?

Just for the record,

    1.  ATT can do whatever it wants.

    2.  I can see strong reason for not allowing non-ATT sites to use ATT
        internal network to route non-ATT mail.

    3.  I think not allowing non-ATT mail to route thru ATT site without using
        ATT network means ATT is not doing its fair share.

    4.  Within (3) above, ATT should discourage others using it as THE mail
        routing host, which is getting less and less the case anyways.
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