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Re: remember the "diameter of the internet"?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Harper)
Tue Jun 18 13:59:38 2002

From: Jeff Harper <jharper@vzlink.com>
To: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <662132606.1024396449@[192.168.1.101]>
Date: 18 Jun 2002 12:59:05 -0500
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On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 12:34, brett watson wrote:
 
> no, just lamenting the passing of an era.  an era where we engineers 
> cooperated, and "just fixed" the problems as they occured.  and we didn't 
> do things like this.

Keep in mind the reason why the era passed.  During that era, you had
top level, blue sky engineers.  Now the field has been saturated by a
lot of less than desirable "engineers" out there (not calling you one at
all) that ruined it for us all...





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