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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action!
Message-ID: <132136@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 29 Oct 90 01:33:54 GMT
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Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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Karl, there is a *much* simpler solution. Scrap NSFNet. We don't need it. T1
and 64K DDS lines are ***cheap*** these days, so cheap that UUNet can build
a truly commercial TCP/IP service, give excellent service, and charge less
than $2000/month for it.

NSFNet is the government's network. Let them have it for anyone who wants to
live under the government's terms and conditions. Just as the Europeans are
throwing off the yokes of their PTTs, it's time for us to throw off the yoke
of state-sponsored communications networks, and start building our own.

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