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From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
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Subject: Re: Expect major outages due to Bay Area earthquake
Summary: Hysteria is the *last* thing we need
Message-ID: <5343@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 89 10:22:22 GMT
References: <4849@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Inaction Central, San Jose, California
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In article <4849@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes:
>PLEASE SHUT OFF UUCP TO BAY AREA AND MAYBE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.

The phone system was quite congested today, but by midnight things
were working quite fine.  Since most long-distance uucp traffic
occurs at night this can probably safely be ignored.

(The packet nets may be another matter -- the local Telenet 2400
indial does not answer and the 1200 indial seems to be permanently
busy.  Haven't tried Tymnet.)

>Some buildings have collapsed or burned.

Relatively few, many if not the majority are (were) residential
buildings in San Francisco itself.  Plus the bridge and freeway
collapses.

>People are being asked to
>stay away from work until things are cleared up, so don't expect
>anything to be fixed for a while.

Nonsense.  Except for those in San Francisco, most Bay Area
businesses were open today, and the few that weren't (notably
Apple) will be open tomorrow.  And as far as the networks are
concerned there doesn't seem to be much in need of repair --
within 24 hours all of ditka's Bay Area uucp neighbors seemed
to be back to normal, while both BITNET and the Internet were
working fine from SLAC (Stanford) to the outside world today.

>Please don't telephone anyone in the area for a few days.

A reasonable suggestion, though after midnight PDT it may not much
matter.

Yes, things are a bit messy here.  But there's no need for people
going around inciting mass hysteria.

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