From: jdbeard@patriot.net   
      
   On 06/01/2012 01:48 PM, Wolfgang Schelongowski wrote:   
   > [Subject changed for obvious reasons]   
   >   
   > Jim Beard  writes:   
   >   
   >> On 05/28/2012 07:54 AM, Wolfgang Schelongowski wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> [1] I'm getting pinged by 128.9.160.132 (jar.isi.edu) aka   
   >>>       203.178.148.19 aka pinger.* aka 129.82.138.38 aka 128.9.160.132 ...   
   >>>       every 11 minutes, but not today, on pentecost monday. Is it a   
   >>>       holiday today in Colorado?   
   >>   
   >> Yes.  It is Memorial Day (observed) in the U.S.  The traditional   
   >> date of Memorial Day is 30 May, but it is shifted to the Monday   
   >> preceding for observance.   
   >   
   > Thanks to you and TJ for the facts. I already knew that there is   
   > something similar in the UK, a so called "bank holiday" early in May.   
   > I encountered it some two dozen years ago in London. My then boss, a   
   > Kiwi, hadn't thought of that when he directed me to areas of interest   
   > where I wanted to lose much money fast. For English books, of course.   
   > But only very few shops were open.   
   >   
   > BTW my pinger is now at 203.178.148.19. Last delta t was 663.   
      
   129.82.138.38 is University of Colorado (Fort Collins campus,   
   vicinity Colorado Springs) but the other three belong to   
   Information Science Institute, University of Southern California,   
   with 128.9.160.132 subassigned to IPC Computing Services, all   
   according to whois.arin.net.   
      
   jim b.   
      
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