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From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Subject: The first ping To: ccfj@quagga.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod), ccdw@quagga.ru.ac.za (Dave Wilson), barrett@daisy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett), fsg@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (Fred Goldstein), nerd@percival.rain.com (Michael Galassi) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 0:57:21 PST Message-Id: <m0kgtvt-000b0LC@rain.psg.com> Well, the line keeps going up and down, and the telcos have not completed testing yet. But, for the record book, the first ping from North America to [Sub-Saharan] Africa rain:/home/randy> ping 146.231.64.2 146.231.64.2 is alive rain:/home/randy> date Tue Nov 12 00:44:47 PST 1991 And to push the envelope, all mail for Africa which comes to rain.psg.com will now go SMTP, i.e. this message! Fantastic! randy