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Network Outages (was: AlterNic antics)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Carter)
Tue Jul 15 16:51:45 1997

From: Steve Carter <scarter@genuity.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:26:11 -0700

George,

My 2 pence worth: Networks do not crash of their own accord.  Hardware
failures may take a network out, but the highest, by far, culprit for
outages is human error.  If changes are not made, or closely managed,
then networks will stay up.

Steve.


> Networks, as a general rule, crash of their own accord.
> That does not excuse hostile action against them, which is
> generally illegal.
> 
> Mr Kashpureff is in deep doggy doo.
> 
> -george william herbert
> gherbert@crl.com

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