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April 1997, Week 3

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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Roy Brown <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:46:26 +0100
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In article <[log in to unmask]>,
Neil Harvey <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I know some of the listers won't believe this.......
>
>After my frivolous post about using other topologies to carry WAN
>signals, I received a call from the Department of Forestry, eager to
>explore further the idea that trees could carry LAN signals.
>
>We discussed rooters, trunking, branching, inter-leaving and so on for a
>few minutes, then I told them they were barking up the wrong tree.
>
>OK, that's it. They've come for me.
>
>Neil

I think they forgot about the SAP packets that would be travelling the
(token) rings....
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