From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Sep 14 01:35:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA22107 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 01:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from texnet.dingo.com (root@texnet.dingo.com [206.108.192.251]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA22095 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 01:35:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [204.191.202.153] (line153.nwm.mindlink.net [204.191.202.153]) by texnet.dingo.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA22761; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 01:36:18 -0700 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 01:34:39 -0700 To: Michael Dillon From: jay@result.com (Jay Thorne) Subject: Re: Internet MELTS DOWN AT END 1996?? Cc: Small Internet Access Providers , inet-access@earth.com, linuxisp@jeffnet.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, os2-isp@dental.stat.com Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12:35 AM 09/14/1996, Michael Dillon wrote: <. A long, carefully written, well supported analysis,. > * * *sigh* * That guy gets paid for writing his confusing mish-mash of a column * and I get paid nothing for writing this explanation which I have * gone to some trouble in making as accurate as possible. Well done! The thing that pisses me off the _most_? Idiots who write _about_ tech the same way that the writers for 'Baywatch' write about search and rescue operations. Ie, the "Internet Meltdown" article was the same level of sensationalized fiction. Now if he'd only included pictures of some artificially endowed blonde, the rest of the world would have instantly known it was fiction. -- Jay Thorne http://net.result.com/ President, The Net Result Systems * Services Telephone:(604) 220 2504 WWW & Internet Systems Consultant.