At 4/24/2000 09:22 PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote or quoted:

>I often wonder what the Internet would be like without the various people 
>who have made the Internet what it is: Dan Bernstein, Linus Torvalds, Jon 
>Postel.

I hate to point this out, especially here, but Eric Allman is also one of 
the people who made the Internet what it is. Sendmail runs in an awful lot 
of places. The Morris Worm of '88 wouldn't have been possible without 
Allman's software. Like it or not, I believe he does belong on that list.

(As do Thompson, Kernighan, Ritchie, Cerf and Wall.)

>Oops, check that.  We now know what the Internet is like without Jon.

No kidding. I had high hopes for ICANN, but they've been pretty well 
dashed. I definitely preferred IANA.

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                              Kai MacTane
                          System Administrator
                       Online Partners.com, Inc.
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 From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)

finger trouble /n./

Mistyping, typos, or generalized keyboard incompetence (this is
surprisingly common among hackers, given the amount of time they
spend at keyboards). "I keep putting colons at the end of statements
instead of semicolons", "Finger trouble again, eh?".

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