Easy there Jason, I think that the 95th percentile of NANOG readers understood Richard's joke to be some sort of reference to packet flooding as further evidenced by the net smiley with which he ended his email.  What with all the sarcasm on this list, a bit of humor is most welcome.

-prl.

--
"Francis, lighten up."  - Stripes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Legate [mailto:jlegate@alienchick.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:15 PM
> To: Richard A. Steenbergen
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Houston problems?
>
> Aside from the obvious immaturity you display in this
> response, yes, it is
> water flooding.  I just was seeing what else was affected by it.
>
> -j
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:44:29PM -0400, Richard A.
> Steenbergen wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 21:44:29 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
> > To: Jason Legate <jlegate@alienchick.com>
> > Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> > Subject: Re: Houston problems?
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 05:39:39PM -0700, Jason Legate wrote:
> > >
> > > I am getting word that the Qwest Houston TeraPOP is down, due to
> > > flooding.
> > >
> > > Is this true, and does anyone know of anything else from
> down there?
> >
> > They mean water flooding Jason, not anything you'd be
> interested in. :P
> >
> > --
> > Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>      
> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
> > PGP Key ID: 0x138EA177  (67 29 D7 BC E8 18 3E DA  B2 46 B3
> D8 14 36 FE B6)
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