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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action!
Message-ID: <13740@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Date: 30 Oct 90 22:17:29 GMT
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In article <9010301830.AA08855@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> tmallory@BBN.COM writes:
+
+There's got to be a connection: at the very least it's not clear that allowing
+a single company to run the show will necessarily be bad.

May Teddy Roosevelt roll over in his grave and shoot a bull moose!

The only reason it was so 'good' is because ATT was so 'restricted'
by the government. Don't think for a minute that ATT wouldn't have
raised the price to what the market could bear if it had had the
chance.
-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu