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From: tom@LOGICON.ARPA.UUCP
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Subject: Re: port collisions
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Date: Fri, 16-May-86 14:11:00 EDT
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On the subject of picking port numbers:

>Benson and I have already colided, AND WE'RE ON THE SAME FLOOR OF THE
>SAME BUILDING OF THE SAME COMPANY.  Since numbers don't mean anything,
>we both happened to pick 666 for our private port number.

I wonder if that's because they both knew that the protocols they were
working on would be "devilishly difficult" to debug :-) 

(Sorry, I just couldn't resist...)

Tom