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Re: Packet Loss

  • From: David Lesher
  • Date: Thu Dec 14 20:38:57 2000

Unnamed Administration sources reported that scott w said:
> 
> 
> Page 83 in the 3rd edition: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station
> wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

Older than that, and btw, Karl Kleinpaste did just that, when the
initial Compuserve<-->'Net email link killed OSU's mail due to
"ftp by mail" [ab]use.

Karl wrote 9-track tapes and carried them across town to relieve
the backed-up Telebit Trailblazer link.....


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