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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Is the Internet usable for wide-area interactive conversations?
Message-ID: <35911@ucsd.Edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:25:11 GMT
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The real solution is to fix telnet and its ilk so that it doesn't kill
the connectionn when it gets what could well be a temporary error like
network unreachable.  It's not at all unusual to get temporary errors
like that whilst rerouting is taking place.
	- Brian