[39283] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statement of WorldCom, Inc. on Nasdaq Network Service Interruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Rapier)
Sun Jul 1 17:45:20 2001
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Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 17:43:34 -0400
From: Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>
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"J.D. Falk" wrote:
>
> On 06/29/01, Brian Wallingford <brian@meganet.net> wrote:
>
> > The ten-thousand dollar question is who authorized _development testing_
> > on a production network at 2:30pm - NASDAQ or Wcom? "Routine testing" at
> > 2:30pm? Or was it a fluke related to a problem with personnel
> > management?
>
> "Routine testing" could well mean "our most junior technician
> was told to clean up the mess of cables, and one fell out."
> I'm sure that's happened to everyone here....
Nope. Not here. Nope. No siree...
(once unplugged the wrong end of the fiber optic splitter and took 20
minutes to figure out what was wrong).
