[38190] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More BW, Less Taxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Wed May 30 07:53:12 2001
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:51:36 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: Richard Naylor <richard.naylor@citylink.co.nz>
Cc: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>, Albert Meyer <albert@waller.net>,
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010530163931.0373a450@pele.citylink.co.nz>; from richard.naylor@citylink.co.nz on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:42:38PM +1200
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 04:42:38PM +1200, Richard Naylor wrote:
> At 12:27 AM 5/30/2001 -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
> >but then again, there are probably far fewer errant backhoes in the atlantic.
>
> They're called anchors and fishing boats in sea cables. One local operator
> has there own chopper and patrol boat to chase them away (there are also
> major 600MW power cables close by). Usually the damage is done at night
> when "there were no boats nearby" - honest, I was at home in bed......
hmmm, yeah, i guess that is fairly equivilent.
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