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David Barak thegameiam at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 30 15:39:49 UTC 2001


Charles Sprickman wrote:
>The internet is different now, there's no            
                                                      
      
>comparison to what it was in '94 or '96.  Those
>episodes were more                                   
                                        
>embarrasments than anything else.  Would UUNet or ATT
>or Genuity think                                     
                                  
>twice about upgrading routers if there was impending
>danger of a lack of                                  
                                   
>memory or cpu?                                       
                                                      
                                 
 
In this market, with capital expenditures WAY down, I
would expect non-upgrade solutions to be more likely. 
  
                                                      
                                      
>Can a small ISP in Florida still clobber the whole
>internet?  Learning experiences, that's all...  

You'd be surprised at the number of substantive ISPs
who can be impacted by customer mistakes...

David Barak
"Quis custodes ipsos custodiet?" - Juvenal 

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