[122059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mitigating human error in the SP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Thu Feb 4 18:12:56 2010
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:12:32 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
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