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From: steve@NOTE.NSF.GOV (Stephen Wolff)
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Subject: Re: NSFNet throughput applauded
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Date: 24 Nov 88 10:08:41 GMT
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Washington bureaucrats like me take unwarranted pleasure in unsolicited
compliments like yours, when the credit really goes (in this particular
instance) to all the hard-working and dedicated folk at Merit, Inc. (who
have a five-year agreement with NSF for management and operation of the
NSFNET Backbone), and to their joint study partners, IBM and MCI, whose
contributions of facilities, services, high-grade engineering talent,
and top management attention and commitment have consistently exceeded
anybody's reasonable expectations.  I'd also like to note here
the continuing and welcome participation of the Strategic Fund of
the State of Michigan in this rather special academic-industrial-state-
federal partnership.

But, warranted or not, I'll just <grin>.  Tnx!  -s (Networking, NSF)