[Fwd: Re: RCN vs Mediaone cable modem experiences?]

[jc at TRILLIAN.MIT.EDU (John Chambers,,,781-647-1813)]

Jerry Callen contributed:
	Finally, in this day and age, I wholeheartly agree that The Phone Company
	has the attitude that goes with copper. I prefer the attitude that goes
	with fiber optics and other 20th century technologies.

Huh?  What makes you think that's final.  Lots of room for flamage ...

Myself, I think I'd cast a pox on both their houses, and go with  the
attitude that built the Internet. It could perhaps be summarized with
a parody of the snail-mail system's old motto:  "The message must get
through."

There was also the t-shirt  that  I  saw  Vin  Cerf  flaunting  at  a
conference  some time back.  It read "IP on everything".  Not exactly
the attitude of either the phone or cable companies.

(Well, maybe it's second meaning IS their attitude. ;-)

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