Re: serious telnet bug; is it just me?

Russ Pagenkopf (russ@ism.net)
Sat, 9 Sep 1995 17:52:28 -0600 (MDT)

On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, Chris B. Wilson, VectorNet wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Sep 1995, Brian 'MegaZone' Bikowicz wrote:
> > I used to work for another firm that would release SW without a lot of
> > testing because of demand, or because marketing put the pressure on - and
> > I can't tell you how many *major* bugs showed up after customers were
> > running it that testing should have caught.
>
> Oh! You worked for Xylogics? <grin>

Sorry folks, but this was too good to pass up. The following message was
the *next* message in my mail box. Not only did I have a good laugh at
Chris' message, but this about killed me :-).

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Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 19:56:56 -0600
From: Mike Nemeth <mike@vu.com>
To: bsdi-users@Interpath.net
Subject: setting up PPP connection to Xylogics terminal server

i am attempting to set up a PPP connection to a Xylogics terminal server.
what the heck does this mean?
Wait for BOS (tlu) on ppp0 . . .ppp: PPPIOCIPWBOS timed out