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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Disaster Planning
Message-ID: <1989Oct28.152740.27371@world.std.com>
Date: 28 Oct 89 15:27:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: henry@utzoo.uucp's message of 27 Oct 89 16:40:00 GMT


>>What is needed is to inform the people who actually are tracking an
>>emergency situation first-hand (AT&T, Civil Defense, FEMA, Pentagon)
>>of contacts who might be able to get bandwidth freed if and when
>>needed ...
>
>Before getting excited about this, figure out how much of the total phone
>bandwidth we amount to.  It's not worth the trouble.
>-- 
>A bit of tolerance is worth a  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology

I dunno, I think my point stands, why not let the professionals
mentioned above decide this? If they agree with you at least it was
their decision and we don't find out some other reasoning we missed
later.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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