[6892] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Update on mail bombing threats--not so funny
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Sat Jan 11 07:45:09 1997
In-Reply-To: <199701110900.BAA03841@quest.pluris.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 07:19:45 -0500
To: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@clark.net>
Cc: avg@pluris.com, dan@dpcsys.com, nanog@merit.edu
At 1:00 AM -0800 1/11/97, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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>Dan Busarow wrote:
>
>>I'm not trying to discourage the use of PGP, just point out that
>>it is unlikely to solve the problem at hand.
>
>>Long term, yes, today, no.
>
>Depends on what you think "today" is :) I'm old enough to see
>way many things change -- when i started hacking, computers
>with no ICs in them were still quite useful.
>
Please, sir, do not remind me of even earlier things...such as the
machines, admittedly shoved in a corner somewhere, that were still running
legacy applications without _transistors_.
I still have a soft spot in my heart for vacuum tubes. Diagnosis is so
much easier when you can look for the tube that isn't glowing.
Howard
