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RE: Horrible world trade center crash, traffic effect

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jlewis@lewis.org)
Tue Sep 11 13:05:24 2001

Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:58:59 -0400 (EDT)
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To: Randy Neals <rneals@gt.ca>
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Randy Neals wrote:

> Traffic patterns on our network are starting to look different than normal.
> I expected more traffic but it seems that traffic volumes are decreasing
> slightly.

The news sites are all overloaded, so people are just watching TV or
listening to the radio.  We had a very brief initial surge of several
mbit/s above normal, but it quickly went to sub-normal (maybe 50% of
normal) traffic volume.

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