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- From: beh@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu (Bruce Howells)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: And on the subject of Internet bandwidth...
- Message-ID: <BEH.92Nov22192521@acs.nntp-read.bu.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 00:25:21 GMT
- References: <mtymp15.722390999@staff.tc.umn.edu> <9211220110.AA00901@hrt213.brooks.af.mil>
- Sender: news@bu.edu
- Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA
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- In-reply-to: tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil's message of 22 Nov 92 01:10:00 GMT
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- I happened to be across the room when my wife asked...
-
- "Bruce, what's .mil mean?"
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- After I stopped reflexively cringing, imagining those Nice Men from "We
- Work For The Government" coming for a visit, I wandered over to the
- terminal... Turns out that .mil (MilNet, for the domain-impaired) was
- stuck on the end of a UseNet posting... Here, of all places.
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- Gee, must be awfully important... a milnet site posting to usenet...
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- Then I saw the sender. Nope, can't be important.
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- Then I read it (slow night 'round the homestead), and it sounds as if our
- little old friendly milnet site has been not just posting wildly to usenet,
- but also logging some pretty intensive time telnetted to csd.bu.edu...
- (Mentally computes how far away a site has to be to get a 700 mS ping time)
- gaak... Crossing lots of wire and gateways, Tim?
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- Lots of wire... Lots of gateways... Lots of packets.
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- Good to know that tax money we (or at least those of us enough in the real
- world to be paying taxes - and worrying how to pay taxes...) spend for
- Internet research... spend to make sure the US keeps leading the research
- effort into (horrors!) useful uses for technology is going to exactly where
- it was meant to...
-
- NOT.
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- Hope you're enjoying yourself, Tim... Just remember next time you hit a
- keystroke... I paid for that Telnet packet.
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- And it's *REALLY* comforting to know just how vigilant our Nation's armed
- forces are... Hope nothing important comes up while you are on #bondage.
-
-
- Enjoy your afternoon-
- Bruce Howells, beh@acs.bu.edu bruce@vmcms.bgs.com
- Just another software professional.
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