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Re: Did Sean Gorman's maps show the cascading vulnerability in Ohio?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon Aug 18 10:28:26 2003

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:21:29 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.44.0308180933420.7970-100000@noc1.fas.harvard.edu> from "Scott McGrath" at Aug 18, 2003 09:58:21 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered:
> 
> 
> 
> Remember that Dig Safe is implemented on a state by state basis some of
> the programs like the one you describe are dreadful. The one in my home
> state is fairly thorough in checking bona fides before providing the data

?????

Since {most} state laws REQUIRE you call, how to you propose to vet
queries? I dig up my drain tile, I need to call re: the gas line.
Legit or not?

Jose and Manual are digging up a parking lot; do you NOT tell them
about something under it because they are not lily white? 

Hell, I bet 40% of the general contractors in the country have
SOME criminal history, be it brawling or such. It's not exactly
a Walter Mitty profession.




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