[10978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BOOM! there goes WorldCom
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Thu Jul 17 21:41:27 1997
To: perry@piermont.com
cc: yone@wolfenet.com, nanog@merit.edu, gherbert@crl.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:48:16 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:25:52 -0700
From: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
>Here in Manhattan, we don't get lines cut by digging, for obvious
>reasons.
Don't take that to the bank. On the way to work one morning
while some fiber was being routed up Market street in San Francisco
to my at-the-time employers office, I chatted with the digging crew
and found that they'd just discovered our building's copper bundle
almost 2 feet out of position from what the map said and nearly
had backhoed a large portion of San Francisco's long distance
lines and network connectivity.
-george william herbert
gherbert@crl.com
