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  From: John Edwards <isplist@adam.com.au>
  To  : Grant <grant@conprojan.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:45:39 +0930

Re: Southern Cross.

Grant wrote:

> Ok so I didn't use the correct word. "people's web access" how about a few
> days downtime for companies running critical services? That has to hurt.
> We don't just use the internet for web access.

Sure it hurts, but in the absence of evil supervillians where is the
motivation?

The only people who profit from this are those that own the other
cables, which aren't even in the same ballpark in terms of bandwidth
(although I imagine SX is eating into their profits..). Just the same, I
don't see Ziggy with a pinky raised to the corner of his mouth just yet.

The decent ISP's have infrastructure and redundant links in place to
re-route around such problems anyway. Another reason why you shouldn't
buy into the 'tier 1 is better' myth.

John Edwards

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