Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Thu, 13 July 2000 02:50 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt
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> If IETF makes it clear that AOL is not an ISP, it will commercially
> motivate AOL to be an ISP.

probably not.  folks who subscribe to AOL aren't likely to be 
reading IETF documents.

face it, it's not the superior quality of AOL's service that keeps 
AOLers from moving - it's their susceptibility to marketing BS and
their addiction to chat rooms.  it's hard to help those people.

Keith