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From: ebersman@uunet.UU.NET (Paul Ebersman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Connecting to the Internet
Message-ID: <131145@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 2 May 91 03:36:32 GMT
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In <9105011304.AA08438@ftp.com> gordon@FTP.COM (Gordon Lee) writes:

>Other interesting developments in this area:  Alternet, PSInet, along
>with CERFnet recently signed an agreement to carry commercial traffic
>generated by one anothers customers.  NEARnet also recently followed
>suit with a commercial traffic exchange agreement with PSI.  Relavent
>players will probably waste no time clarifying the above mud...

I hadn't heard about PSI hooking to NEARnet, but we did announce a
direct connection between Alternet and NEARnet. This should be up fairly
shortly.

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                   Paul A. Ebersman @ UUNET Communications
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