--- William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org> wrote:
> > 10 years ago, I was at Cray Research. We did trade shows over the
> internet
> > (might have been ARPA back then).
>
> Prolly NSFnet...ARPAnet by then was pretty much dead and buried.
My only personal contact with the ARPAnet was about 1986 - someone
else sent my name to a freeware author and suggested he send me
a copy of his program - 1.5MB of source and wrappers. My friend
got my address wrong, and to compound the error, he gave the author
a bang-path that routed over the ARPAnet to Ohio State (our upstream
feed).
The result was that 1.5MB of text came over the ARPAnet, through an X.25
gateway that OSU paid per-packet charges on, was UUCPed to our little
11/730 at work at 2400bps, *bounced*, then was returned through the same
route, in its entirety, to the sender. The mail/UUCP/netnews admin at
OSU was a friend of mine. I got the big *NEVER DO THIS AGAIN OR ELSE*
warning even though I had nothing to do with any of it.
ISTR it cost OSU around $200 in telecom charges for that fubar.
They didn't get a full-time, fixed-cost feed to "the Net" until a couple
of years after this happened.
-ethan
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Received on Mon Dec 02 2002 - 17:13:01 GMT