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Re: Interesting social phenomenon...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Gallun)
Fri Apr 25 15:54:17 1997

To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:42:09 EDT."
             <199704251842.OAA27567@bifrost.seastrom.com> 
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 15:17:16 -0400
From: Joel Gallun <joel@wauug.erols.com>

> Kinda reminds me of the individuals who show up in the IETF terminal
> room unable to configure TCP/IP on their Win95 laptop.

a guy sat down next to at the last one, looked at the screen and said
'we have to use unix?'. I directed him to the peecees. gaak

> Come on people, THINK.  E-mail is not an efficient way of discussing
> an outage in progress!

true, but it makes for interesting post-mortem reading...

what other means do we have? Let's see there's the telephone, but it's
unicast. How about teevee, that's broadcast :)

Humourously,

Joel

(who's in a good mood 'cause he used the downtime to install junkbuster)

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