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Author Topic: So there IS a twilight zone!  (Read 4092 times)

cranioscopical

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So there IS a twilight zone!
« on: April 10, 2008, 07:21 AM »
Research Reveals Internet "Black Holes"
Apparently, internet traffic can land in black holes sometimes, and just... vanish.  Despite the fact that everything seems hunky dory!


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Anyway, as I was sayi..^       !


nudone

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Re: So there IS a twilight zone!
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2008, 07:41 AM »
i have direct experience of this strange phenomenon. my hotmail sent emails often vanish; i know i wrote them and i know that i hit the send button and yet there is absolutely no record that they existed in the sent folder.

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Re: So there IS a twilight zone!
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2008, 12:37 PM »
Wow, followed the link to the ZDNEt blog in the one of the comments, and it gave me a totally new perspective on Net Neutrality. There's more to it than I'd heard about. Makes all the political brouhaha seem kind of silly, since what's really needed is a technical fix.
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