[69671] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators - NOT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Eyers)
Sun Apr 18 13:56:28 2004
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 14:01:45 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: "Jerry Eyers" <jeyers@sloancc.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: "Jerry Eyers" <jeyers@sloancc.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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