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Re: History question, Morris worm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott W Brim)
Mon Nov 22 17:26:18 1999

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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:38:05 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: "Scott W Brim" <swb@newbridge.com>
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We disconnected the Cornell campus but kept our DMZ net connected, so we 
could get and send mail and news in a contained environment.

...Scott

At 15:50 11/21/1999 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:

> >and what's more fun, when they come back up on jan 3 or whatever, they 
> will
> >have whatever y2k problems then.
>
>I recall after the Morris worm hit the Internet, reading a report sites
>which unplugged their ARPANET connection were down longer than sites which
>remain connected and got repair information over the net.
>
>Does anyone else remember that, and knows a citation for the report (or
>news story) I'm recalling?
>
>Thanks.
>



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