[94904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Request for topic death on Cold War history (was "RE: Every incident is an opportunity")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (micky coughes)
Mon Feb 12 17:59:00 2007
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:51:42 -0500
From: "micky coughes" <coughes@gmail.com>
To: "Olsen, Jason" <jolsen@devry.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <C679896FB6EB8940A40498B412B7370A0128B454@OBT-W-EVS2P.dvuadmin.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hmm, let's see.
Nukes => cold war => arpanet => internet
Yup, looks ok.
On 2/12/07, Olsen, Jason <jolsen@devry.com> wrote:
>
> > Of course, but the point was the goal of that targetting. The
> > US public by and large believed, and seems to still believe
> [snip]
> > If anniliation is the goal than it's of no importance, just
> > bomb the densest population centers.
>
> To borrow from snarky comments past:
>
> Unless Vendor C has introduced a "no nuclear-apocalpyse" command that I
> need to enable in IOS, it seems that this thread has wandered far from
> the flock and subsequently lost most any relevance to the listserv
> and/or topic that spawned it. Cold War strategy is fascinating and all
> (I do mean that in a non-snarky way) but does it really belong on NANOG
> after it has seemingly dropped any pretense of being an analogy for
> anything list-relevant?
>
> -Feren
> Sr Network Engineer
> DeVry University
>
>
