From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <47439B18.5030509@authentrus.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:42:32 -0500 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Slow response, was /n/sources/contrib/ References: <5e21fcfc9feb2c338e22701a04adf626@quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: <5e21fcfc9feb2c338e22701a04adf626@quanstro.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05947d1c-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> Funnily enough, I recently read an article about >> the possibility of "Internet brown-outs" in a few years >> as ancient overloaded infrastructure hits it's limits: >> maybe that was one of them:-). Wikipedia on Bob Metcalfe: ...Metcalfe is perhaps best known for his 1995= prediction that the internet would suffer a=20 catastrophic collapse the following year; he promised to eat his words if= it did not. During his key note speech at the=20 Sixth WWW International Conference in 1997, he took a printed copy of his= column that predicted the collapse, put it in=20 a blender with some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass. Wes Kussmaul The information contained in this electronic message and any attachments = to this message are intended for the exclusive=20 use of the addressee(s) and may contain confidential or privileged inform= ation. If you are not the intended recipient,=20 please notify attorney Mort Hapless at Vulner, Exposed & Wideopen LLP imm= ediately at either (781) 647-7178, or at=20 ohoh@vulex.com, and destroy all copies of this message and any attachment= s. No, really. Really. Listen, we mean it! Hey,=20 if you don=92t stop reading that confidential stuff about our client you=92= re in big trouble. OK, we=92re the ones in trouble=20 but we=92ll find a way to go after you, or at least we think we may be ab= le to. Look, we=92re begging you. Just click the=20 delete button and move on to a message that concerns you, OK? Please?? We= 'll buy you lunch...