Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!pacbell!att!ttrdc!levy 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 Lines: 30 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." -- |------------Dan Levy------------| THE OPINIONS EXPRESSED HEREIN ARE MINE ONLY | AT&T Data Systems Group | AND ARE NOT TO BE IMPUTED TO AT&T. | Skokie, Illinois | |-----Path: att!ttbcad!levy-----|