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In article <ming.776385237@interaccess>,
that stupid club <ming@flowbee.interaccess.com> wrote:
>barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>
>>In article <3265q2$gqc@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM>,
>>Mary Morris <marym@Sun.COM> wrote:
>>>Can someone enlighten me as to how rights to a newsgroup hierarchy can be
>>>purchased?
>
>>They can't.  They're wrong.
>>Usenet is not for sale, since nobody owns it.
>
>Hmmm... the same goes for the internet, yet CIX is selling it just
>as well.
>
>Ming
>-- 
>Eu-Ming Lee  ming@interaccess.com
>"Someday you will ache like I ache." -Hole
>He who has the most # of extra lives when he dies, wins.

That's about as far off-base as you can get Ming.  

The CIX is not selling the Internet.  They are selling a transit guarantee
and services to their members, which happen to include routing on *two*
CISCO 7000s in California.

The CIX can no more sell the Internet than Interaccess can.

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