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From: smb@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Steven M. Bellovin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: World record furthest telnet: Australia -> Sweden
Message-ID: <11731@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 29 Jun 89 15:37:02 GMT
References: <5841@ditmela.oz> <[A.ISI.EDU]29-Jun-89.00:29:13.CERF>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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A long time ago, when the world was young and research sites still had
guest accounts, the host I was supposed to be using via a TAC was down.
Bored, I scanned the manuals, and learned of a guest account on a
machine in London.  I connected to it, and found a news item advertising
a guest account on a system in D.C.  Of course, I couldn't resist that,
either.  So every character I typed went from North Carolina, via satellite
to London, thence to D.C. via another satellite hop.  The echo, and
presumably the acknowedgements, went via the same twisty path.  Not
what one would call a responsive system...