The text of a website article pointed out to the list last week was:

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A series of major systems failures in the week ending July 18 have called Internet security and robustness into question. Problems started over the weekend of July 12 and 13 when a hacker is believed to have penetrated the Internet's root nameserver, causing severe disruption of the entire Domain Name system. E.mail messages to .com and .net and attempts to access .com and .net sites received 'unresolvable address' or 'host unreachable' responses.

I wrote these folks a note, sufficiently vitriolic that I'm almost embarrased to include it here, pointing out that perhaps that article could have used a _bit_ more research... and got this reply: On Mon, Jul 21, 1997 at 10:26:38AM +0000, MMP wrote:

When an editor returns from vacation, there's always one major error to deal with. I guess the InterNIC news item is my problem. I have spoken with the responsible news writer and will be removing the item from our server.

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Quality journalism is so often enhanced by quality readership

Nicely done. I'm carboning your response to the NANOG mailing list, where the original pointer was raised.

Thanks for your letter

No problem.

Andrew Craig Editor -- Andrew Craig Phone: +44 (0)1273 380040 Editor Fax: +44 (0)1273 380043 Internet IT Informer Email: andrew-craig@mmp.co.uk http://www.mmp.co.uk/mmp

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