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Re: UDP Badness [Was: Re: How to measure network quality&performance

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Fri Mar 10 14:44:36 2006

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:43:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: Bill Nash <billn@odyssey.billn.net>
Cc: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
	tony sarendal <dualcyclone@gmail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603101245490.11733@odyssey.billn.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Bill Nash wrote:

> You will not learn hatred until that MMO you host implements a 'Report network 
> problem' button that does a traceroute, and automatically emails it and a 
> canned message to your NOC mailbox. Ultima Online did this, back in my nocling 
> days. Like monkeys expecting a reward, those little bastards pounded on that 
> button until the lag stopped.

That's hilarious- I just finished emailing ras offlist about the 
same tool. It also (somehow) allowed them to send their blather to 
hostmaster@ea.com.

http://matt.snark.net/crap/idiot/idiot5.txt

matto

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               The only thing necessary for the triumph
               of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

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