From slee@pacbell.net Sat Jan 28 12:44:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!pacbell!slee From: slee@pacbell.net (Seo-yeon Lee) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jan28.124411.4096@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jan 1995 12:44:11 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Nodes 11 through 14 have blank regional pressing entries in the Ashford Poly archives. One routing path lists: 'cascade!transat!orbit-01!stardust'. Orbit-01? Are four of the relay nodes located on satellites? The Public Harmony Acts authorized the deployment of commercial broadcast satellites in geosynchronous orbit in 1983. -- Seo-yeon Lee US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From tnilsson@cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 29 03:50:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!tnilsson From: tnilsson@cam.ac.uk (Thiago Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jan29.035011.6068@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 03:50:11 GMT References: <1995Jan28.124411.4096@pacbell.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan28.124411.4096@pacbell.net>, slee@pacbell.net (Seo-yeon Lee) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. When the fire broke out in B2-114, the mainframe was uploading to a satellite uplink on the roof of Orion Tower. -- Thiago Nilsson *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Macintosh IIfx - NetBSD 1.0 From jhernandez@kth.se Sun Jan 29 09:35:11 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kth!jhernandez From: jhernandez@kth.se (Jen Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: The 10 countries vs 14 nodes mystery - count again Message-ID: <1995Jan29.093511.6222@kth.se> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 1995 09:35:11 GMT References: <1995Jan28.124411.4096@pacbell.net> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan28.124411.4096@pacbell.net>, slee@pacbell.net (Seo-yeon Lee) writes: > Look closely at the Stardust relay table: there are 14 nodes, but only 10 countries listed. Node 14 is the master clock. That's why the decoded line for Row 14 says: 'ROW 14. NO JOKE.' -- Jen Hernández "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) / FreeBSD 2.1