[173256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Jul 21 16:25:50 2014
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:25:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Blake Dunlap <ikiris@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My power is pretty much always on, my water is pretty much always on
> > and safe, my sewer system works, etc etc...
>
> Mine isn't. I lost power for a three days solid last year, I've
> suffered 3 sanitary sewer backflows into my basement the last decade
> and you should see the number of violations the EPA has on file about
> my drinking water system. Only the gas company has managed to keep the
> service on, at least until I had a problem with the way their billing
> department mishandled my bill. Didn't get solved until it went to the
> lawyers.
>
> And I'm in the burbs a half dozen miles from Washington DC. God help
> folks in a truly remote location.
So, could you then, Bill, convince us that your opinion isn't based
on confusing anecdotes for data? :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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