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                             A small work reunion

I had another reunion [1] today, this time a reunion of people who formerly
worked for XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, an ISP (Internet Service Provider) we all
worked for in Boca Raton. The venue for today's lunch was Lucile's Bad to the
Bone BBQ, a favorite locale for us high tech workers in Boca Raton [2].

Rob [3] and I arrived first to find the restaurant without power (in fact,
the entire strip mall was out of power). Consequently the available menu was
quite limited today—grilled items only and no soda (except for diet rootbeer
which were bottled) or draft beer. Despite the lack of power they were still
doing brisk business and it certainly didn't bother us that much—burgers and
ribs were still available.

Joining us for lunch was Tim (the former web designer), NeoMike (former
sysadmin) and R, (former network admin) who was still working there as a
consultant. The place has passed from being an ISP to a bona fide spam house
with fairly insane security (as Rob found out trying to visit R at the
office) which is understandable—being a spam house and all.

Quite a bit of conversation centered around the duties that R does for
SpamHouse. As reprehensible as spam is, the technical challenges do sound
facinating what with having to route taffic out one circuit with inbound
traffic coming in from another, and updating the BGP tables to keep
connectivity. It's the technical challenge that makes the job interesting;
something like the technical challenges inherent in writing a virus. Or
nuclear weapons.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/12/28.1
[2] http://www.ci.boca-raton.fl.us/
[3] http://www.tragic-smurfs.com/

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