Re: The in-your-face hijacking example, was: Re: Who is announcing bogons?

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Three such trunks, terminated at sites where Arpanet and Wideband Network nodes are physically collocated, were established during the first week of May, 1988: BBN to ISI, DCEC to ISI and DCEC to SRI. The intervening weeks have been spent tuning their performance.

Things were more interesting then.