[TriLUG] In search of the walled machine at UNC

[Thunder Bear]

Hmmm this doesn't sound very authoritative.  It just claims this is a  
myth.

I'm more inclined to think that this is real, given the more reputable  
sources that claim it is true.  Though I am still largely skeptical  
because you would think that there would be some reference to it within  
the unc.edu hierarchy, and that all the IT people there would know  
about it (since it supposedly happened only within the last two years).  
  I know UNC is a large institution but a story like that would have to  
get around.

On the flip side, UNC *is* a state run institution.  If it were  
possible for this to happen, this is precisely where it *should* happen.

Still on the fence, but leaning towards believing it.

On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 06:18 PM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> Works just fine for me.
> Resolves to 195.92.193.158 .
>
> Maybe try Google's cache?
> http://216.239.39.100/ 
> search?q=cache:S73ZeZ9jubAC:www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/ 
> mythellany.html+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
>
> I'm not sure I'd place a lot of faith in that page, however.  There's  
> no
> evidence of any research done to prove which are legends and which have
> some truth.  I couldn't find this particular incident on a better web
> site such as snopes.com.  Maybe we'll have to submit it ...
>
> --Jeremy
>
>
> On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 17:51, Thunder Bear wrote:
>> Nope.  No good.  Bad hostname.
>>
>> On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 04:38 PM, Greg Brown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Maybe it was wrong (I typed it into the e-mail).  Here's a copy and
>>> paste
>>> link (by the way, the "it did not" happen story is buried in the  
>>> page,
>>> search
>>> for "novell"):
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/mythellany.html
>>>
>
> [snipped huge amount of cruft for the benefit of those reading the
> digest]
>
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