[42060] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik-Jan Bos)
Thu Sep 13 10:33:46 2001
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: "Seth M. Kusiak" <seth.kusiak@yours4less.com>, nanog@merit.org
In-reply-to: Your message of Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:14:25 -0400.
From: Erik-Jan Bos <Erik-Jan.Bos@surfnet.nl>
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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:26:31 +0200
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Randy,
> > We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest
> > Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the
> > Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting
> > clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP
> > supposedly received the same call.
>
> i received a call telling me to send all my money to nigeria.
That's a coincidence: I received the same call.
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Erik-Jan.
