Subj : File, file; who's got the
To   : Michael Grant
From : Ross Cassell
Date : Fri Aug 31 2001 05:53 am

Hello Michael!

31 Aug 01 08:36, you wrote to David Calafrancesco:

 DC>> No, what is flabergasting me is that a HUB like yourself and Jack
 DC>> would edit in-transit traffic to alter it's distribution from
 DC>> what was intended by the hatcher. If that type of editing is
 DC>> condoned by the filegate, then there is no limit to the chaos
 DC>> that could result if every HUB used their own perogative to edit
 DC>> the in-transit TIC streams to suit their will. It would cause
 DC>> more fracturing of FIDO than you have already succeeded in
 DC>> causing.

 MG> What is /really/ flabbergasting is that you and Dale et al don't
 MG> realize that a HUB has a responsibility to his or her downlinks.
 MG> That's why Jack and Ross are complaining,

 MG> because /their/ /downlinks/ are complaining.

That is absolutely correct, and something Calafrancesco refuses to comprehend 
because he _VOTED_ on it.

 MG> After all, that's who we do it for; the end links. We work for them,
 MG> not for some pie-in-the-sky SLA. The Z1B seems to have lost sight of
 MG> that fact, and choose instead to ignore the wishes of those links in
 MG> favor of imposing their own selfish political agenda upon all end
 MG> links.

Thank you Michael, you summed it up quite well.

Since April we have only seen intimations from them that the entire network is 
bound by _their_ SLA.

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Ross
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