Re: Low AS - Number

[David Barak <thegameiam () yahoo com>]

Another example is AT&T (7018) who purchased CerfNET
(1740), and also have 2386 (and others) for private
use.

-David Barak

--- Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 12:10:34PM -0400, Mike
> (meuon) Harrison wrote:
> > ------- And to get completely off topic.. Why/how
> would you use 
> > an ASN for marketing purposes? And should this
> even be considered..
> > except as a tongue in cheek geek thing? 
>
> Nonsense. One of the first things new/large
> companies do is buy someone
> with a low ASN and take it over. Look at QWest,
> Verio, etc. In fact,
> pretty much the only exception to this rule is
> Cogent, who is still using
> 16631 instead of 174 or 4006.
>
> -- 
> Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>      
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David Barak
-fully RFC 1925 compliant-

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