And you should have seen the daily phone bill - they used commercial long distance for the link... On Tue, 19 Apr 1994, Brian D Williams wrote:
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 14:18:29 -0700 From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.sf.ca.us> To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: re; intolerance on the list
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Well, now that the issue of Marines on the list is settled, perhaps the good SGT could share some non classified knowledge of the USMC's extensive use of Banyan Vines.
For those who didn't know, during Desert storm every Marine tank was a Banyan server, the self healing nature of this network proved very effective, in fact "Stormin Norman" gave it credit as one of the three key assets we had.
Brian Williams Extropian Cypherpatriot Ex-Marine Current NRA/ILA and other nasty stuff
"Cryptocosmology: Sufficently advanced comunication is indistinguishable from noise." --Steve Witham
"Have you ever had your phones tapped by the government? YOU WILL and the company that'll bring it to you.... AT&T" --James Speth
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Dr Hunter S Thompson
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