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Re: 40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brim)
Sat Aug 14 13:34:34 2010
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 13:31:18 -0400
From: Scott Brim <scott.brim@gmail.com>
To: Jimi Thompson <jimi.thompson@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <C88C3C22.CDC3%jimi.thompson@gmail.com>
Cc: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 08/14/2010 13:27 EDT, Jimi Thompson wrote:
> It was 40 acres and a mule - FYI
That was Civil War, for freed slaves. Here in NY, war of independence
veterans were given at least 100 acres each.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_New_York_Military_Tract
