From: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:24:00 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: AOL crashes and burns
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At 8:16 PM 8/8/96, Warrior wrote:
>Great news, eh?

No big deal, as I see it.

The only reason the AOL outage made the headlines is because of market
share. My own local ISP goes out at times, sometimes for more than a day.
And judging by the comments of others here (e.g, "my connection has been
flaky," "My ISP was down for the past few days," "Could someone mail me the
last 3 days worth of traffic?"), I suspect this is common.

Market share is what generates headlines.

--Tim May


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