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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu on behalf of Martin Hannigan
Sent: Tue 1/15/2008 9:25 PM
To: Joe Greco
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...


On Jan 15, 2008 3:52 PM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>
> > Joe Greco wrote:
> > > I have no idea what the networking equivalent of thirty-seven half-eaten
> > > bags of Cheetos is, can't even begin to imagine what the virtual equivalent
> > > of my couch is, etc.  Your metaphor doesn't really make any sense to me,
> > > sorry.
> >
> > There isn't one. The "fat man" metaphor was getting increasingly silly,
> > I just wanted to get it over with.
>
> Actually, it was doing pretty well up 'til near the end. \

Not really, it's been pretty far out there for more than a few posts
and was completely dead when "farting and burping" was used in an
analogy.


-M<