Jon,
Sigh ... I checked out the archive and noticed my own email in the fall 82
archive, from when I was managing the NCP to TCP transition on the ARPANET
(I wrote the code to disable NCP at the IMP interface). I didn't need to
be reminded how long I've been doing this stuff ... :-).
Cheers,
Andy
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At 03:11 PM 3/9/00 +0000, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
>i was looking thru some old archives (1982 on - yes, thats right, from
>just before this years college kids were born)
>of the original tcp-ip maillist
>and came across a message from mark crispin about a broken vax mailer
>flooding neighbor mailservers with SYNs......amazing how nothings new
>
>see
>http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/misc/tcp_ip/
>for a slightly incomplete archive of it all
>i couldn't find any other archive but if someoen does have it, let me
>know and i'll delete mine and point at theirs...
>
>one interesting thing is to look at pre-DNS email addresses - so there
>used to be this single file we'd all FTP from ISI with the hosts.txt
>listing of name/addresses - then one day we distributed it....now of
>course has to haev a .com, and the nameservers have to zone xfer it
>all the time too....so plus ca change, plus c'est le mome raths....
>
> cheers
>
> jon
>
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