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At 02:41 PM 7/18/97 -0400, you wrote: >Washington D.C.? > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/fp_front.htm > >And this one's not from AP or Reuters. The Front Page Washington Post Articles leads with... "Traffic on much of the Internet ground to a halt early yesterday after a pair of human errors, an unprecedented glitch at the Herndon company that maintains the Internet's address registry and the accidental severing near Laurel of an important data line. For much of the day, World Wide Web sites all over the United States were inaccessible.... " Yet, when I look at traffic statistics for MAE-East... http://www.mfsdatanet.com/MAE/east.giga.overlay.html I notice only a SLIGHT reduction in Thursday's traffic when compared to the other days this week (maybe 10% reduction for a couple hours) I don't know if I would label that as "Ground to a halt" It's a shame the media insists on exagerating the facts to give the impression of "news" Russ __________________________________________________________________ Russ Haynal - Internet Consultant, Instructor, Speaker "Helping organizations gain the most benefit from the Internet" [email protected] http://navigators.com 703-729-1757 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Author:"Internet; A Knowledge Odyssey" (Top-rated CD-ROM Tutorial) Available from MindQ Publishing: http://www.mindq.com
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