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RE: Low AS - Number

  • From: Eric Kuhnke
  • Date: Mon Apr 21 12:16:35 2003 
The US Army Aberdeen Proving Ground controls ASN 666.  Coincidence?  I think not!

:)

At 12:10 PM 4/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Dwight Ringdahl wrote:
>> Nope strictly for marketing reasons... ASN has almost no place in BGP
>> selection.
>
>Dang Geek Pride!  (Still MH94 and 3901 after all these years..)
>
>It's worse than hanging around Ham radio guys with 4 digit call signs...
>
>.. Next we'll get into .. "I booted off of paper tape.." and then..
>"I booted off of flip switches".. but I'm one of the few that have 
>strung ferrites on a loom.. Martha.. get me my cane.. 
>
>------- And to get completely off topic.. Why/how would you use 
>an ASN for marketing purposes? And should this even be considered..
>except as a tongue in cheek geek thing?