[17032] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SkyTel 2Way pagers DOWN all US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Wed May 20 09:38:22 1998
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:29:33 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
Cc: TTSG <ttsg@ttsg.com>, Golan Ben-Oni <bnite@tremere.ios.com>,
mrizzo@origin.ea.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <v03007806b188204e3fce@[198.3.136.121]>; from Dean Anderson on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 01:54:32AM -0400
On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 01:54:32AM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote:
> >other .5% problem), I told her if I was ever kidnapped to call Skytel as
> >they had to be able to track where I was. The woman on the phone "would
> >neither confirm nor deny" that possibility. She referenced a privacy
> >issue and didn't want to say more.
>
> Interesting. Of course, we know from the OJ saga that Cellphones can be
> located well enough to find a moving vehicle...
>
> --Dean
Pagemart service is STILL down as of this time (5-20-98 8:30 AM CDT); I am
getting neither my normal "news and weather" broadcasts or directed pages.
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