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Re: Outages in the News

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Jul 18 18:11:53 1997

Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:48:20 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: MFS <michael@dook.org>
Cc: Dan Dale <ddale@exodus.net>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970718120558.5314A-100000@guinness.dook.org>; from MFS <michael@dook.org> on Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 12:12:43PM -0500

On Fri, Jul 18, 1997 at 12:12:43PM -0500, MFS wrote:
> Looks like this person has confused Eugene Kashpureff's stunts with
> the NSI debacle.

Yep.

> It's things like this that threaten our (as well as the network's) reputation
> when read by the 'internet savvy' public.

Quite so.

> My apologies something so off topic.

<soapbox>

I don't think it's off topic at all.  There won't _be_ anything to
operate if people like that end up testifying before, for example,
congressional committees...

</soapbox>

Cheers,
-- jra
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