remember the "diameter of the internet"?

Tue Jun 18 17:34:10 UTC 2002

--On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 1:33 PM -0400 Pawlukiewicz Jane 
<pawlukiewicz_jane at bah.com> wrote:

> Hi Brett,
>
> Are you asking _why_ there are so many hops between yourself and the guy
> across town?

no, just lamenting the passing of an era.  an era where we engineers 
cooperated, and "just fixed" the problems as they occured.  and we didn't 
do things like this.

turn on the sarcasm tone, and re-read my post.  this could win the prize on 
Latenight with David Letterman, Stupid IP Routing Tricks.

-b