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Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Apr 24 13:45:15 2005

Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:43:53 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200504240600.j3O60nm7026132@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:00:48AM -0400
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:00:48AM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > Well, PPLB isn't the end of the world. But PPLB is coming, and the smart 
> > people will be prepared for it.  They dumb people, well, they're dumb. 
> > What can be expected from dumb people?
> 
> What you seem to be missing is that the *really* smart people will be prepared
> for it when it actually gets here - and will take advantage of it's lack of
> arrival in the meantime.

And, the even more important extension of your last comment, they'll be
prepared to move on to something else, when it comes, and they can no
longer take advantage of it's absence.

Cheers,
-- jra
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