Well, I forwarded it to a few friends who really should know better, so if you call the feds, don't forget I confessed early. The news people would jump on a story like this sharks on chum. Look at how much is made of a streetflood during a Y2K test. Actual damage/bodily injury from computer failures would be the cause of a whole series of articles on "how safe is your workplace?" and "how much does your IT department REALLY know about Y2K?" Stranger things have happened. I have seen a few emails about all optical switchgear moving 100s of Gb/s around april 1st a few years back. Now I get product literature from vendors selling it. Deepak Jain AiNET On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Tim Salo wrote:
and I can't find any published reports in the newswire databases.
Perhaps someone should compile a list of how many hours NANOG readers spend searching for news reports of this event.
Perhaps this was some sort of denial of service attack (get your competitors to spend their time searching for non-existent news reports).
Perhaps after we compute the dollar value of the damage that was done by this bogus report, someone can call the Feds...
(Ok, Ok, so I spent a few minutes with AltaVista, too ...)
-tjs