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Re: aol

  • From: Dave Curado
  • Date: Fri Aug 09 02:52:26 1996 
 
>   I was waiting for someone to bring this up, but it didn't happen.
> 
>   The "19 hour" outage of AOL was attributed to a new network
>   operating system update, by at least one media story I read.  I'm
>   curious is there're any interesting lessons from this for the rest
>   of us? 

Perhaps: Always make sure you have that "UnInstall" option available
to you? =-)

I paused for a moment and considered how interesting it is that
a problem with an online service is now headline news... on the same
day NASA announced there is(was) probably other life in the universe.

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