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On Sun, 20 May 2001, AllenAmet@aol.com wrote:
> i believe we are now down to "leap seconds." No 
> doubt we are all the better for it...

Some of us are, anyway. I recall, years ago, that Dr James 
van Allen, eponymous discoverer of the van Allen radiation 
belts, was asked whether the belts were good for anything. 
Van Allen replied, "Well, I've made a pretty good living 
out of them". 

Fresh from setting up a tier 2 NTP subnet, 

-- Michael J. Smith
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