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From: morgan@Jessica.stanford.edu (RL "Bob" Morgan)
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Subject: Re: Request For Opinions:  Optical Fiber Physical Topologies
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Date: 13 Apr 89 19:46:29 GMT
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Kent writes:

> The wire becomes alive, capable even of eating technicians who
> foolishly venture in the zone above the ceiling tiles.  We lost two
> techs.  We left the ladders where they were and the ceiling tile off,
> hoping the wire beast would at least spit out the bones, but it never
> did.

Ah, there's your mistake: true cable techs have no bones, the better
to sneak cables thru skinny conduits (though, of course, *real* cable
techs don't use conduits, or plenum-rated cable).  Your report of
disappearing technicians adds fuel to my conjectures about the true
composition of Yellow-77 . . . *8^)*

 - RL "Bob"