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On Jun 21, 11:31, Bob Metcalfe <[email protected]> wrote: > By the way, there are reports from two days ago that 400,000 people lost > their Internet access for 13 hours. Sounds like an outage approaching > "collapse." Let's blow this into proportion, shall we? Current, somewhat overhyped, estimates say there are 60M Internet users worldwide. 400k is some 0.67% of that. Cut the hype in half if you want, and make that 1.3% instead. I say, some collapse. -- ------ ___ --- Per G. Bilse, Mgr Network Operations Ctr ----- / / / __ ___ _/_ ---- EUnet Communications Services B.V. ---- /--- / / / / /__/ / ----- Singel 540, 1017 AZ Amsterdam, NL --- /___ /__/ / / /__ / ------ tel: +31 20 6233803, fax: +31 20 6224657 --- ------- 24hr emergency number: +31 20 421 0865 --- Connecting Europe since 1982 --- http://www.EU.net e-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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