Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Who's Using Whom? Message-ID: <2912@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 16 Jan 90 09:57:09 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 30, message 6 of 12 After writing: > AT&T long distance has been severely disrupted today in the Bay Area > due to a major cable cut, according to an AT&T operator I talked to. The Telecom Moderator wrote: > [Moderator's Note: I really think the operator you interviewed spoke > without full knowledge of the circumstances of the outage; That's, of course, an understatement. But it will be interesting to see over the next few days and weeks how that AT&T PR department will handle this one. It should also be fascinating to find out what the *real* problem was, if it ever is to be known by the public. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !