There wasn't any data. It did X with the external network. The worst case was that it maxes out the connection and burns through bandwidth. But that's somethin

There wasn't any data. It did X with the external network. The worst case was that it maxes out the connection and burns through bandwidth. But that's something that can be monitored. The customer would have rather had something working with the network, than something broken with the network. In that particular circumstance, there's always an excuse to skip QA. IMHO.