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Subject: Re: Dumb question: ping w/o icmp support?
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Date: 7 Nov 88 18:26:59 GMT
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A long time ago, in a context far, far away, the standard unit of
bogosity was declared to be the "lenat". Except that, like the coulomb,
1 lenat is so large that one normally uses the microlenat.

We may or may not wish to resurrect this usage.