🚀 go-pugleaf

In <1993Jan23.005752.17986@credit.erin.utoronto.ca> glover@credit.erin.utoronto.ca (Mike Glover) writes:
				[...]
>>NOT!  The true UT is the University of Texas at Austin.  We have more
>>students than you, more computers than you, and have probably been
>>on internet much longer.  Take a hike.

>Your turn....  The argument:  My dad can whoop your dad!  went out in grade 3.
>How much do you really know about UofT.  Do you know how many computers we 
>have???  I can't even begin to count,  and I worked for the University
>computing facilities here at Erindale.  (one of many colleges from UofT).
>All I know is we have a whole lot.... 

Well, this was sufficiently provocative that I bothered to count...

toronto.edu: 2933
utexas.edu : 5212

This is only an approximation since I was counting IP addresses and
not actual machines.  For me, I am willing to believe that the
addresses are a rough but reasonable indication of how many machines
each side really has.

It has been suggested that the original poster might have rigged the
domain name server to *pretend* there are many more machines than
really exist!  8-)  Go ahead and ping(1) the addresses one by one if
you're *really* cynical.  If you're really, *really* cynical, one
could argue that the gateways have been reprogrammed to return pings
from piles of fake addresses!

If anyone wants to go to utexas personally to count machines, I'll go
if my flight and hotel are paid for, and if I have to be counting for
less than 2 hours of the day.  Note that we have to count all the
machines simultaneously so no one moves machines around while we're
counting! |8-)

Finally, we need to dig through all the paperwork at utexas to ensure
that none of the machines are "borrowed" from anywhere... etc.

Life gets too complicated when you're *too* cynical...


Anyway, we lost on machines.  (I wonder what all those extra machines
are for?  Campus-wide net that even goes into the dorms???)  So, let's
just change our newsgroup names and let UTexas duke it out with
UTennessee, UTokyo, etc. before we have to do battle on those fronts
too!

No!  Wait!  What am I saying!  Let's just buy 1300 more machines!  Yeah!

ACS
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