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Re: availability and resiliency

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Fri Sep 29 13:24:22 2000

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:22:07 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Leo Nelson <lnelson@axient.com>
Cc: "'nop@alt.net'" <nop@alt.net>, Andrew Bangs <andrewb@demon.net>,
	nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:08:03AM -0700, Leo Nelson wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but what the heck does a "9" refer too? Is it a UPS,
> rack, floor space, circuit...

	A "9" is a marketing device.  It's used to provide unrealistic
guarantees to customers by people with no operational experience.  You
should look into installing as many of them as possible.

	--msa


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