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RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Thu Aug 12 23:42:11 2004
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:41:34 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Andre Oppermann" <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Andre Oppermann wrote:
> If you remember the very old story on Slashdot where
> some guy in Australia managed to secure a patent on a
> "circular transportation device" (a.k.a. "Wheel") it
> will explain many things... ;-)
I mean no disrespect to people from down under, but I have heard several
times that if Al Gore was Australian he would have secured a patent that
he invented the Internet...
Michel.
