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Re: Outages in the News

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rbenn@clark.net)
Fri Jul 18 14:50:37 1997

From: rbenn@clark.net
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 14:26:10 -0400 (EDT)
To: Cameo Wood <cameo@metsys.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.90.970718135926.9096A-100000@netsys.com>

On Fri, 18 Jul 1997, Cameo Wood wrote:

> Better watch out, more reporting to come soon.  I was just called by 3
> seperate magazines for a quote about the NSI problems that we have been
> having.  The scary part is, 2 of them got my number from my postings on
> usenet.  I hope they aren't citing any Joe-Bob CNE they talk to as being
> an "Internet Engineer for a major ISP."  Then we are all in big trouble. 
> 

While there are at least a dozen stories out there so far about the recent
NIC antics, about 90% of the content in them all seems to be sourced from
2 wire stories--one from AP, one from Reuters.

Randy BEnn



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