Re: Support the Gingrich-Elders Plan

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From: rodrigo vanegas
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 1995 18:51

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In article <899@moene.indiv.nluug.nl> toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene) writes:

   Interesting forgery:

   From: rms@toad.com (Richard Stallman)
   Subject: Support the Gingrich-Elders Plan
   Message-ID: <62451@toad.com>
   Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco

   Note that:

   % traceroute toad.com
   traceroute to toad.com (140.174.2.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
    1  sun4nl.NL.net (193.78.240.1)  239 ms  299 ms  217 ms
   ...
   16  toad.com (140.174.2.1)  487 ms  415 ms  411 ms
   % traceroute gnu.ai.mit.edu
   traceroute to gnu.ai.mit.edu (128.52.46.31), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
    1  sun4nl.NL.net (193.78.240.1)  362 ms  291 ms  290 ms
   ...
   15  albert.gnu.ai.mit.edu (128.52.46.31)  344 ms  384 ms  327 ms

Not so fast.  RMS may be simply taking a California vacation!
Consider this:

| 
| $ whois toad.com
| Nebula Consultants (TOAD-DOM)					      TOAD.COM
| Nebula Consultants (TOAD-HST)	TOAD.COM			   140.174.2.1
| 
| $ whois toad-dom
| Nebula Consultants (TOAD-DOM)
|    P.O. Box 170608
|    San Francisco, CA 94117
| 
|    Domain Name: TOAD.COM
| 
|    Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
|       Gilmore, John  (JG150)  gnu@CYGNUS.COM
|       (415) 903-1400 (FAX) (415) 903-0122
| 
|    Record last updated on 03-Nov-94.
| 
|    Domain servers in listed order:
| 
|    TOAD.COM			140.174.2.1
|    CYGNUS.COM			140.174.1.1
|    RTL.CYGNUS.COM		140.174.1.2
| 
| 

Looks right to me... even if I don't get the joke.


-- 
rodrigo vanegas
rv@cs.brown.edu

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Subject: Re: Support the Gingrich-Elders Plan
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