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Re: Early warning system

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Thu Mar 22 10:56:16 2001

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:49:10 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <20010322055646.17137.cpmta@c004.sfo.cp.net> from "Sean Donelan" at Mar 21, 2001 09:56:46 PM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Sean Donelan said:
> 
> 
> During the rolling blackouts on Monday and Tuesday, one of the complaints
> was the lack of notice before the lights went out.  Would it be useful
> if you received advanced notice before a rolling blackout?  Or would you
> do nothing different, and wait for it?

ISTM:
The folks who would benefit the most are not NANOGites,
but rather the people then NOT caught in elevators..

(But I worry that if you gave a mass warning, and
everyone turned off her/his PC, etc... would there
then be a surplus so ISO cancelled....etc. etc.)


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