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Re: More on video

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Sep 18 17:30:11 1998

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 17:26:50 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <980918153629.eb48@SDG.DRA.COM> from "Sean Donelan" at Sep 18, 98 03:36:29 pm

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
 
> Unlike last Friday when no one really knew exactly what was in
> the boxes, GPO has all weekend to prepare this time.  They should
> have enough copies at the GPO window for all the news media on
> Monday morning so there is no need to beat up on the government
> Internet servers.

They COULD open up distribution all weekend; but encrypted.
Then, release the key Monday.  

(Oops, real encryption is an evil terrorist weapon with no valid
uses....  How could I have forgotten that?)


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