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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action!
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Date: 29 Oct 90 21:03:46 GMT
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Christopher Raczka <chris@ecdnt5.enet.dec.com> writes:

	I also think the "other side" of the story does need to be told
	and this much I do know...  Sometime in September, Merit, IBM
	Corp, and MCI established Advanced Network and Services Inc.
	(ANS) ANS, a NOT FOR PROFIT organization, is to manage and
	operate the NSFNET backbone under subcontract to Merit

Funny to see the NOT FOR PROFIT emphasis.

Wasn't NYSERNET also started that way?

/jordan