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Re: MFS WorldCom/WilTel/LDDS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Aug 29 15:43:34 1996

Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:22:50 -0700
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
To: stpeters@NetHeaven.com
Cc: jerry@fc.net, nanog@merit.edu

Dick St.Peters <stpeters@NetHeaven.com> wrote:

>> UDP is not bad per se.  Broken applications are.

>Of course, but it is the misuse of UDP for streaming data transport on
>a shared network that makes these applications broken.

You can misuse TCP just as well.  Somehow the most popular transport
protocol comes to mind.

--vadim

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