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On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Gary R Wright wrote: > And you think that a large ISP in a large country is somehow immune > from human error? I don't think the problem at hand has anything > to do with the size of the ISP or the size of the country they might > reside in. His point was that some relatively insignifigant site on the net can ruin things for large portions of the net relatively easily. It sounds sort of like the egress/ingress filtering argument all over again. You shouldn't trust your customers...not because they're malevelant, but just because accidents happen, and if you can contain them, it makes things better for everyone. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jon Lewis <[email protected]> | http://noagent.com/?jl1 for cheap Network Administrator | life insurance over the net. Florida Digital Turnpike | ______http://inorganic5.fdt.net/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key____
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