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Re: Lessons, does anyone ever learn?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Wed Feb 17 17:09:45 1999

Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:46:55 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <990217142604.2b26d@SDG.DRA.COM>

At 02:26 PM 2/17/99 -0600, Sean Donelan wrote:

>Since there is currently a $2.8billion budget request pending before
>Congress to fund critical infrastructure protection, do you sometimes
>get the feeling some researchers just cut & paste their old analysis
>into whatever today's hot topic is?

Yes, but that's not the scary part.

The scary part is that this monetary tag may never make it to the people
who might actually do the work.

- paul


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