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From: pag@hao.UUCP (Peter Gross)
Newsgroups: net.lan
Subject: Re: Ethernet addressing
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Date: Mon, 4-Jun-84 19:03:27 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  4 19:03:27 1984
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> One suggestion made, I believe, by IEEE 802 is to assign unique network
> addresses by using the serial numbers on dollar bills The U.S. government
> already provides these unique IDs at a modest fee.  One might take a
> dolloar bill, use the serial number as station address, and destroy the
> bill or tape it inside the cabinet to withdraw it from circulation.

Sounds to me like a bureaucrat's secret plan to reduce the national debt .....

Make 'em use $100 bills,
--peter gross
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