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Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

  • From: Joe Shaw
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 18:55:34 2000 
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:

> When I asked a couple dialup wholesalers this question point blank last
> year, the answer was no - because their routers/term servers didn't have
> enough CPU to do filtering.

It certainly makes you wonder what exactly it is you're paying for when
shelling out tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars for term
servers.  One would think CPU power would at least get some attention.

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Joseph W. Shaw - [email protected]
Computer Security Consultant and Programmer
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."