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From: perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: MCI ad
Message-ID: <477@rdin.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 13:39:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  8 13:39:26 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Apr-85 00:19:58 EST
Organization: Resource Dynamics Inc., New York
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It would be just like AT&T to get mad at MCI and do something
stupid to retaliate.  It was that kind of attitude on their part
towards companies like MCI that made the government break them
up in the first place.  Considering how many AT&T sites there
are on the net, I would say that they need us more than we need
them.  If they stop carrying the news for us, we could stop feeding
news to them!

Now wasn't that childish?  I can understand why some would be
upset by ads on the net, but I don't think that it should generate
such net-wide ill will.  Let's face it: most sites on the net
are engaged in commercial endeavors.  It's only natural for some
to view the net as a good advertising medium.  Your higher-ups
might not like paying for the time, but his higher-ups probably
wouldn't pay for his reception costs unless they could get some
advertising value from the net.

Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
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