[8650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Eating My Collapse Column
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Gibson)
Mon Apr 14 17:13:58 1997
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:42:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Gibson <tim@taggnet.skyscape.net>
To: Bob Metcalfe <bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <33524095.6446@infoworld.com>
On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Bob Metcalfe wrote:
> Dear NANOG,
>
> You've perhaps already heard that I made good on a promise to eat the
> 12/4/95 InfoWorld column in which I predicted Internet collapses during
> 1996. If not yet, then please. Yes, eating the column was a publicity
> thing, of course, and look at all the publicity it got.
<sigh> Great, now we can all stop working the 20 hour days using spit and
duct tape to keep the net running. Hard bet to loose, hat's off to the
guys at the core for keeping it up and together.
Tim Gibson
NOC Manager
Skyscape Communciations
