[117081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Beware: a very bad precedent set
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Pitcock)
Mon Aug 31 18:44:15 2009
To: "Mark Andrews" <marka@isc.org>, nanog@nanog.org
From: "William Pitcock" <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:47:17 +0000
Reply-To: nenolod@systeminplace.net
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