[25369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WorldCom fiber cut - Syracuse, NY
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam D . McKenna)
Wed Oct 6 16:26:16 1999
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 16:21:32 -0400
From: "Adam D . McKenna" <adam@flounder.net>
To: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>,
Mike Heller <mikeh@earthweb.com>,
Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net>,
Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 10:52:29AM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> >You're right, I think putting people's lives in danger so that my downloads
> >don't get interrupted is definitely the way to go.
>
> (a) It's only in danger if they're careless, and
> (b) It's Darwinism. You're just helping along natural selection.
>
> Not to mention
>
> (c) Porn makes the net go round. If people can't get their porn, they don't
> need net access. If they don't need net access, we're all out of jobs. If
> we're jobless, we're homeless and without food and we starve. Now if it
> comes down to some idiot in a backhoe dying quickly in a blinding explosion
> or ME dying slowly of starvation, I vote for the dude in the backhoe.
I think that if you really want to make people think twice about digging then
you should put a dollar amount on every outage and sue the construction
company for the damage. Maybe this is an unrealistic proposition but I think
it is definitely a better solution than putting the equivalent of a land mine
around your wire.
--Adam
