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RE: [announce-all] NAC Maintenance this weekend (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher E. Brown)
Fri Dec 10 17:17:52 1999
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:38:47 -0900 (AKST)
From: "Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: Tim Salo <salo@networkcs.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Deepak Jain wrote:
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>
> Well, I forwarded it to a few friends who really should know better, so
> if you call the feds, don't forget I confessed early.
>
> The news people would jump on a story like this sharks on chum. Look at
> how much is made of a streetflood during a Y2K test. Actual damage/bodily
> injury from computer failures would be the cause of a whole series of
> articles on "how safe is your workplace?" and "how much does your IT
> department REALLY know about Y2K?"
>
> Stranger things have happened. I have seen a few emails about all optical
> switchgear moving 100s of Gb/s around april 1st a few years back. Now I
> get product literature from vendors selling it.
Yes, but given much of the gear available I am thinking the
venders would be better off sending their brag sheets *on* April 1st.
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