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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 17/09/2013 9:28 PM, Paul Wallace
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<div>The network WOULD have not only existed by probably been
completed today actually if Mr Conroy hadn't killed it off in
its infancy.<br>
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"A" network of some sort would have Paul - but I'll wager anything
you like that we would still be bellyaching about how
expensive/braindead/unreliable/insert-favourite-gripe-of-the-day it
was, and floating all sorts of ideas about how it could and should
have been done faster/slower/cheaper/costlier and with a different
technology, different owner, builder, operator and operating model.<br>
Further, if it had ever been deemed "completed" we would have fallen
over laughing at the concept, and been proposing all sorts of ways
to extend/expand/change it "like they should have done at the
beginning" if only "they" had the foresight that this list has been
blessed with - if only "they" had asked us.<br>
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In short - it wouldn't matter who did what, the AusNOG community
would find something to criticise about it ;-)<br>
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(It seems to be what we do when we're not busy fixing stuff - so I'm
reassured that everybody's networks must be extraordinarily stable
this evening)<br>
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Paul.<br>
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