On Thu Dec 25, 2003 at 03:36:34PM -0500, Richard Welty wrote:
nanog has a clear Precedence: bulk line in the header which is the defacto standard for handling this, so that can't be it.
i think it's basically clueless IT staffs trying to reinvent a wheel that's been invented, usually badly, billions and billions of times over the past 30 or so years.
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