On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Hitomi Ichinohei wrote:

Does anyone else get this sort of message?

When I ping the Fanfic.com server, these are the replies.

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PING fanfic.com (205.252.46.11): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=3 ttl=239 time=366.9 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=4 ttl=239 time=329.8 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=5 ttl=239 time=314.2 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=6 ttl=239 time=280.1 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=7 ttl=239 time=352.3 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=8 ttl=239 time=304.5 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=12 ttl=239 time=321.1 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=13 ttl=239 time=350.3 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=14 ttl=239 time=285.9 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=15 ttl=239 time=257.6 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=16 ttl=239 time=304.5 ms
64 bytes from 205.252.46.11: icmp_seq=17 ttl=239 time=577.7 ms
20 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 40% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 257.6/337.0/577.7 ms

It probably just means there is lag and you quit before all the packets 
came back.

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