Re: Information re: Cyberpromo

[Mark E Larson <mlarson () rust net>]

Hmmmm.  Let's see.  Shutoff peering with AGIS.  Tell all their customers to
leave.  Hoping for some business  :)


At 11:30 PM 6/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
> AGIS has some 175 or so reseller customers, some of whom are largeish.
> A number of those are dual-homed or peer with "nearly everyone" at
> one or more exchange points, though.  In the last few weeks, I've seen
> over 10 midsized ISPs announce they were leaving AGIS, many more are talking
> about doing so.  Both because of ongoing spam support and their low
> quality of service (some inherent, some apparently people attacking
> Cyberpromo and/or AGIS after being spammed, unfortunately) I now
> recommend to all the ISPs I do or have consulted with that are
> AGIS customers that they leave.
>
> I've never actually seen a large network kill itself before.
> It looks like they've got circa 6 months to live at this rate.
> This is an interesting process...
>
> -george william herbert
> gherbert () crl com
> Disclaimer: I speak for nobody, not even my cats.

Mark E Larson
Chief Engineer
Senior Network Architect
RUSTnet Inc.

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