[32844] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Dec 14 20:37:42 2000
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Message-Id: <200012150135.UAA01044@sigma.nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 20:35:41 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10012142107240.29098-100000@guinness.digisle.net> from "scott w" at Dec 14, 2000 09:12:15 PM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that scott w said:
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> Page 83 in the 3rd edition: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station
> wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Older than that, and btw, Karl Kleinpaste did just that, when the
initial Compuserve<-->'Net email link killed OSU's mail due to
"ftp by mail" [ab]use.
Karl wrote 9-track tapes and carried them across town to relieve
the backed-up Telebit Trailblazer link.....
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A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
