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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
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Subject: Re: Massive Service Outage in Northern Illinois!
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Date: 24 Oct 90 16:42:13 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 761, Message 10 of 10


It's the law in NY that you check two days in advance before digging.
There's been a change in utility attitudes in the last few years.
Then it was "Please check before digging" and there were funny
commercials on TV reminding people.  Now it's "Check or else!"

Re suing for loss of service: It would be fairer if this were part of
the tariff.  Now a customer gets nothing unless he's big enough to
afford a lawsuit against someone with deep pockets smaller than him.


Wm. Randolph Franklin
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