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Re: Reporting Little Blue Men

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dalvenjah FoxFire)
Fri Jan 23 17:30:39 1998

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 14:17:52 -0800
From: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@dal.net>
To: sully@mail.usinternet.com
Cc: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@priori.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980123150953.00ad4b40@mail.usinternet.com>; from sully@mail.usinternet.com on Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 03:09:54PM +0000

On Fri, Jan 23, 1998 at 03:09:54PM +0000, sully@mail.usinternet.com put this into my mailbox:

> >>How do you prevent packets from your network with a broadcast address,
> since 
> >>what defines a "broadcast" address really depends on the subnet mask?
> >
> >Filter all the blue wavelengths on your FDDI and OC3 interfaces.
> 
> Maybe I don't posses your intellectual prowess.  Please explain what blue
> wavelengths are in regard to this.  Thanks...

I won't presume to comment on intellectual prowess, as humor prowess and
a fair understanding of mid-80s saturday morning cartoon shows is what's
needed to understand this message.

-dalvenjah 'ah, the important things in life'

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