From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley The two original text smileys, :-) to indicate a joke and :-( to mark things that are not a joke were invented on September 19, 1982 by Scott E. Fahlman, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Computer Science. His original post at the CMU CS general board, where he suggested the use of the smileys, was retrieved on September 10, 2002 by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x) as proof to support the claim.[14] In a message written on Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:36:14PM -0500, Dean Anderson wrote:

I doubt NANOG/BIND Cartel mafia can shame anyone, given its (members and administrators) shameful and possibly illegal activities.

--Dean

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote:

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In a message written on Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:14:52PM -0400, Charles Regan wrote:

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I'll explain. We are a small ISP on a very remote Island. We have a /22 from ARIN. We have a 20mbits pipe from ISP1 and 20mbits from ISP2.

Perhaps you could post the IP addresses on your end of both of these links?

I believe then NANOG may be able to shame the appropriate folks into doing BGP for you. :)

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