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From: romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey)
Newsgroups: news.config
Subject: Re: Expect major outages due to Bay Area earthquake
Message-ID: <7814@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 19 Oct 89 17:53:10 GMT
References: <4849@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <926@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: romkey@asylum.SF.CA.US (John Romkey,The Asylum)
Organization: The Asylum; Belmont, CA
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In article <926@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) writes:
>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.
>
>Please ignore this message, at least partially.  You may want to shut off
>automatic polling, but most South Bay Area sites seem to be up and running.

Yes. News is making it into the penninsula. Most areas here were not
so hard hit; San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Cruz and some parts of San
Jose seem to have taken the most damagae. The middle didn't suffer as
much.

As of today, it is still difficult to get telephone circuits into San
Francisco. I don't know about out of San Francisco. Yesterday (Wednesday)
evening, getting circuits to or from Santa Cruz was also difficult.

As far as I can tell, Internet connectivity is non-existent.

So please, don't indiscriminately turn off your newsfeeds to the bay
area. If your neighbor is one of the major sites like apple or
hoptoad, try to contact the administrators for that site if that
site's not getting through. If they are, keep those bits flowing.

Thanks.
-- 
			- john romkey
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