🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 14 Feb 1997 06:10:18 GMT, wjones@fireblazer.com (Wes A. Jones)
wrote:

>It takes you 7 and me 2. Go figure. Wanna try for something on the
>west coast? Or how about mid west? I got you guys beat dude. Remember,
>I am also a member of Mindspring. I'm not competition to you. I have
>no desire to. There is so far out of 50 differnet sites that have been
>tested, there is only one site that Mindspring beats me at. Thats
>www.mindspring.com. This has been verified by me on my system, and 2
>of your other members. Do you feel threaten or something? Is this the
>reason for the attack? What gives? Do you hate the fact someone else
>has a better network? Or even faster? (T1 wise that is) I've had
>nothing but respect for Mindspring and this is what I get for it?


::sigh::
This has nothing to do with competitors, or who has the biggest
'anything'. It was simply my comment to your claim of connection, at
one hop, to any peering point on the net. Something I don't believe
anyone anywhere can claim. 

With the Internet comprised of multiple backbones through multiple
carriers it would require a proprietary network of your own,
interconnecting directly to every NAP, the FIX, and the CIX, via
single hops from each point to each other point, to accomplish your
statement. Since I didn't see that I simply called that particular
claim into question. Any network configured that way would also seem
to have a large potential for failure, without redundant routes, but
that's a different discussion.

Purely a technical comment, no other intent should be read in to it. 

Bob