Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict
From: erict@flatline.UUCP (j eric townsend)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: I thought we were in this together -- AT&T not upholding its end..
Message-ID: <875@flatline.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jun 88 01:17:02 GMT
Organization: a flat near the Montrose, Houston, Tx.
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While reading all the debate over AT&T's withdrawal from third-party
mail forwarding, I got to thinking.

I thought it worked like this:  Each of us takes on the mail links
we can afford.  For the privelege of sending mail through other people's
machines, we let them send mail through ours.

It seems that AT&T doesn't like this deal anymore.  Fine.  Cut
AT&T off of *us*, and make them pay for and set up a seperate link
to each and every machine that they want to talk to outside of AT&T.

Imagine if management@{killer,rutgers,bellcore,etc} decided they didn't
like forwarding other people's mail.  How long would their neighbors keep
their links? Forever?  A while?  Not too long?

Imagine if we all got greedy and decided not to forward mail for other
folks.

Think about it.


Me, I'm just a pseudo-leaf node.  Mail *could* be forwarded through me,
but most of my neighbors are connected to the same houston<->world
gateway site as I am.  One day, though, I may control a more important
site.  I hope I remember all this then.
-- 
Skate UNIX or go home, boogie boy...
Spelling errors are directly related to how little time I have...
J. Eric Townsend ->uunet!nuchat!flatline!erict smail:511Parker#2,Hstn,Tx,77007
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