[3266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: My InfoWorld Column About NANOG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Gregers Bilse)
Fri Jun 21 18:00:35 1996
From: Per Gregers Bilse <bilse@EU.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:56:34 +0200
In-Reply-To: <v02130500adf03340a7ee@[204.117.49.7]>
To: bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com (Bob Metcalfe)
Cc: NANOG@merit.edu, letters@infoworld.com
On Jun 21, 11:31, Bob Metcalfe <bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com> wrote:
> By the way, there are reports from two days ago that 400,000 people lost
> their Internet access for 13 hours. Sounds like an outage approaching
> "collapse."
Let's blow this into proportion, shall we? Current, somewhat
overhyped, estimates say there are 60M Internet users worldwide.
400k is some 0.67% of that. Cut the hype in half if you want, and
make that 1.3% instead. I say, some collapse.
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