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Re: My InfoWorld Column About NANOG
- From: Per Gregers Bilse
- Date: Fri Jun 21 17:58:45 1996
On Jun 21, 11:31, Bob Metcalfe <bob_metcalfe@infoworld.com> wrote:
> By the way, there are reports from two days ago that 400,000 people lost
> their Internet access for 13 hours. Sounds like an outage approaching
> "collapse."
Let's blow this into proportion, shall we? Current, somewhat
overhyped, estimates say there are 60M Internet users worldwide.
400k is some 0.67% of that. Cut the hype in half if you want, and
make that 1.3% instead. I say, some collapse.
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