[12391] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Traina)
Sun Sep 14 17:09:56 1997
To: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
cc: Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>, rirving@onecall.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "14 Sep 1997 13:14:19 EDT."
<ytzppfstqs.fsf@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 13:57:33 -0700
From: Paul Traina <pst@juniper.net>
Excuse me, but just as most people don't count the length of their
toenails when figuring out how tall they are, most people only
would count only the important bits of America.
Your continuious anti-american [sic] sentiment is clearly caused
by your inferiority complex due to being born in a boil on the ass
of the United States.
:-)
Best,
Paul
From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org>
Subject: Re: ATM (was Re: too many routes)
Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov> writes:
> At 9:37 PM -0400 9/11/97, Richard Irving wrote:
> ...
> >Now, the North American Continent is about a 4000 mile trip .... This is
> >a VERY ROUGH estimate.
>
> DARN! And here United has been crediting me with just 24xx Frequent Flier
> miles for the trip. I wanna recount!
He did say "the North American Continent", and it does get
slightly wider farther north. (The Trans-Canada Highway,
for example, is 7600 km long, or 4720 or so miles). North
America is also very long north-to-south.
http://www-nais.ccm.emr.ca:80/wwwnais/select/northamr/english/html/en-a.html
gives a decent view of the continent.
Don't let your mind be as narrow as the "contiguous" parts
of your country. :-)
Sean.
