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Mon Oct 18 17:27:23 UTC 2010

On October 17, 2010 at 20:24 joe at nethead.com (Joe Hamelin) wrote:
 > That's why 3M registered mmm.com back in 1988.

When BU joined the internet and promptly brought down about a third of
it with their host table entries one of the problems was a host named
3b (.bu.edu, it was an AT&T 3B5) which caused a 4bsd script to go into
an infinite loop filling roots (/tmp) which back then crashed systems.
Also, one-letter hostnames (a.bu.edu as an alias for bucsa.bu.edu,
etc.)

I know because basically it was my fault.

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