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Subject: Re: subnet addresses
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Date: Tue, 30-Jul-85 21:30:29 EDT
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From: Mark Crispin <MRC@SIMTEL20.ARPA>

Damn it, if the network doesn't have subnets it should have whatever it
damned well wants to in its octets!!!  I would like to see you have
ARPANET and MILNET have a flag day...after all, they can have 0 in the
second and third octets.  Or are they exempt?

I know that a number of sites are host 0 on an IMP deliberately just so
the users can say @O <n> without dots, colons, slashes, whathaveyou.
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