🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4hohfp$9v1@news.internetmci.com>, David Fisher
<David.Fisher@InternetMCI.com> wrote:

> WOW, Ray, you seem real upset and your professionalism is similar to a 
> child!
> I am reading all of this stuff about FCC complaints and lawsuits.
> Would you also sue Macy's or Dillards if they had your favorite shirt on 
> back order or even your local car dealership if that shiney new car that 
> you had on order was backordered at the factory??? 
> InternetMCI does have the most technologically advanced network in the 
> WORLD, with the expertise of Dr. Vint Cerf, Phil Gross and Farooq 
> Hussain, some of the greatest internet minds in the world represent MCI.


Yah yah yah. And what have you done for me TODAY?


> MCI has run the NSFNET and now VBNS backbone for many years, the 
> technological advancements with regards to backbone technology have been 
> brought to you by MCI.  Many many companies derive their connectivity 
> from MCI and that includes many companies you THINK are backbone 
> providers (just trace route a few and find yourself at InternetMCI).

<snipped some hubris here>

> So stop whining and start planning how you are going to use what MCI is 
> bringing you to enhance what you bring your customers!

You seem to miss the point that MCI's word, in this user's experience
isn't worth crapola. Oh, by the way, did you know that GE makes GREAT
engines? Some of the best in the world. In fact, they make engines for
NASA!

So what? I don't buy NASA vehicles from GE. GE is not in the retail market
because they know it's not what they are good at. MCI might make
incredible backbones...but that has nothing to do with their ability to
service my market (as an ISP).

If that example was too abstruse for you, I'm trying to get the point
across that technical ability, like making a backbone, does not imply
(even a little bit) that MCI can provide reliable services to an ISP.
Certainly if they can't give reliable dates, or dates at all, then they
are not the kind of company an ISP can afford to do business with.

Chuck

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Chuck Bartosch
Digital Difference, Inc.
chuck@baka.com
(607) 257-8596