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To: wonk who wrote (101)	11/18/1998 9:29:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 626

Thanks, Wireless. I had not considered the security implications. For what it's worth, a lot of those office buildings in McLean house spooks, semi-spooks, and feds, so maybe not to worry. McLean is where CIA is located, and a lot of seemingly innocent businesses are involved in national security, and have guarded facilities. E.g., SAIC is either spook or semi-spook. WinStar building has offices of (I think) the Justice Department (working from memory, here) and is guarded 24 hours. And so on. CobaltBlue

To: wonk who wrote (101)	11/21/1998 6:47:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 626

ww, after reading your MAE post, I'm almost certain that you are now questioning the one I did. I stated that MAE stood for Metropolitan Area Ethernet, whereas you stated Metropolitan Area Exchange. We're both right. Only I was citing an historical translation, and yours was more recent. My reference was to the "original MAE" concept, and they actually did use Ethernet. You might recall that MFS turned the industry on its head, sorta, back in the early Nineties when they began deploying non-traditional formats and protocols on the WAN through the use of proprietary means. Ethernet, FDDI and even Token Rings were being deployed in this manner at the time that the original MAEs were first put in place. See boardwatch.internet.com