Help with bad announcement from UUnet

Fri Mar 29 16:50:51 UTC 2002

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:

:Why should they talk to you? You're not a paying customer..

Because their network transits _most_ internet traffic and 
as a courtesy, they should provide some bare level of 
diagnostic services to the rest of the network. 

Maybe this has changed, but last I checked UUNet was practically
ideologically opposed to providing a public looking glass inside 
701 or 703. 

So many problems could be solved that way, IMHO. All providers
that originate a certain percentage of all prefixes should be obligated
to provide a public looking glass. 

This always made me really mad that the rest of the Internet had to 
rely on the charity of a few provders for basic diagnostic tools. 
However, this could very well have changed if there was a public 
lg in uunet. 

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batz