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Re: a moment of silence

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Thu Oct 14 17:44:19 1999

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 16:35:39 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
Cc: "John D. Vo" <jvo@inx.inx.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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Indeed, he was.  I got into this business in 1995, so my ties with
Mr. Postel don't go back as far as many of you.  My apologies for my own
ignorance.

--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net    
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."

On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Rodney Joffe wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> Joe Shaw wrote:
> > 
> > He was the author of many RFC's on how to make the Internet a better
> > place.
> > 
> > --
> > Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
> > Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
> > 
> > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, John D. Vo wrote:
> > 
> > > Forgive my igorance. Who is Jon Postel?
> 
> He was really a lot more than that. To get a broader picture, see
> http://www.iana.org which has all the well-known links.
> 
> -- 
> Rodney Joffe
> CenterGate Research Group, LLC.
> http://www.centergate.com
> "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"
> 



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