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Re: Statements against new.net?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Francis)
Tue Mar 13 19:23:43 2001

Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 14:12:12 -0800
From: Scott Francis <scott@virtualis.com>
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On or around Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:56:07PM -0800, Vadim Antonov may have written:
> 
> 
> That is based on the assumption that consistency is necessary
> or desireable :)  Of course, it is dear to an engineer's mind,
> but the case from the sociological point of view is far from
> clear-cut.  In fact, way too many woes of human societies can
> be (at least indirectly) attributed to the misguided attempts
> to enforce consistency.
> 
> --vadim

it's a good thing we're network operators and not sociologists then. :)

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