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From: WHITESID@McMaster.CA (Fred Whiteside)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  trace route to OZ
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Date: 24 Jul 89 12:31:00 GMT
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        Dave Mills write:
>  Milo,
>
>  I don't regard the discussion of interesting routing phenomena between
>  the furtherst outflings of the Internet as operational issues at all;
>  in fact, some of the oddities being discovered may have very real
>  impact on the understanding and solving of basic problems for users
>  and operators of campus, regional and backbone networks. Your comments
>  are out of place and leave the misleading impression that if our users
>  simply call their network gurus everything will get well.
>
>  Dave

        It is worthy of note that this is the *very* first note from
Dave that I have understood in its entirety and (as I long suspected)
I find that I agree completely with what he has to say.

        Those who feel that this list should not have discussion of
any of the real-world application difficulties of the topic of the
list, please feel free to vent your spleen elsewhere.

        Thank you for your attention

Fred Whiteside               POSTMAST@MCMASTER.BitNet
McMaster NetNorth Postmaster POSTMASTER@McMaster.CA
Development Analyst          WHITESID@SSCvax.McMaster.CA
McMaster University          ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!fred
Hamilton, Canada