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RE: Exodus/C&W Depeering


From: Hank Nussbacher <hank () att net il>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:40:58 +0200


At 11:49 AM 26-03-02 -0800, Sean M. Doran wrote:

the Invisible Hand said you should talk to the face instead.  Go figure.

A monk I met on the street, however, said: "Even stupid companies can make
smart decisions sometimes, the trouble is that you can only tell in hindsight
whether the choices made were the right ones".

I was also given a copy of a book by Lao Tze before the monk was
chased off by aggressive chanters and bongo-drummers from a rival sect.
Central London is weird.

I think in business they should rather be reading Sun Tzu.

-Hank


        Sean.

| AS3561 (InternetMCI) was once the number 1 ISP, by almost every
| measure that existed.  The marketplace has not been kind to C&W
| since they bought AS3561.  Why isn't Adam Smith's Invisible Hand
| rewarding C&W?  Is C&W number 5 or 6 these days?


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