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Re: Root-64 Weekly Status Report (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorian R. Kim)
Sun Oct 27 12:41:54 1996

Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 12:37:40 -0500 (EST)
From: "Dorian R. Kim" <dorian@cic.net>
To: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.961026141521.24430L-100000@sidhe.memra.com>

On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Michael Dillon wrote:

> On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Dorian R. Kim wrote:
> 
> > Which universe is this? I didn't realise we needed to take into account
> > happenings in parallel universes while operating our networks. 
> 
> Are you 100% confident that this group will not cause you to spend
> increased amounts of time on tech support and customer relations
> explaining why your network is NOT broken because they cannot get 
> to http://www.carib.tours?

I'm 100% confident that this group will be irrelevant until they somehow get
enough of the Internet to matter. At this point, I don't consider this very
likely. 

> What happens when other employees of your company read some of the
> material Jim Fleming has written and believe that this is an official
> new way to deal with Internet domain names?

They will be referred to more suitable educational material.

> The idea that somehow cyberspace is not part of the real world is
> completely and utterly bogus.

How did you parse this out of the above?

-dorian


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