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From: Mills@UDEL.EDU
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Subject: Re:  NSFNET woe: causes and consequences
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 12:59:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 13 12:59:05 1987
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Ken,

My experience is that it is not unlikely that a packet happens to be in transit
from one end when the other end decides to close. While this would not
occur too often, it would occur often enough to dominate losses due other
causes.

Dave