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Re[2]: relays.osirusoft.com

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Wed Aug 27 15:50:17 2003

Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 15:46:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20030827173654.GI13439@blank.org>
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:36:54 -0400 "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory-nanog@blank.org> wrote:

> 
> In the immortal words of Richard Welty (rwelty@averillpark.net):

> > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:25:46 -0700 (PDT) "Gary E. Miller"
> <gem@rellim.com> wrote:
> > > returning 127.0.0.2 for everything would be an ugly way to bow out.
 
> > yes, but it's been done before.
 
> And oddly enough, it was a terrible idea the first time, and hasn't
> gotten any better in the intervening months.  I suppose going down in
> a blaze of glory might be appealing in the sleep-deprived haze of the
> tail end of a multi-week DDOS attack, but PLEASE. 

hey, i agree, i'm just the messenger here.

richard
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Richard Welty                                         rwelty@averillpark.net
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