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Re: BBN outage


From: Michael Dillon <michael () memra com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 21:44:31 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Patrick J. Chicas wrote:

So.. It looks like they abhorently ignored thier power situation. This is
an "act of stupidity", not an "act of god" as one other person mentioned.

Well, the original outage was caused by a rat gnawing a cable....
There are always layers of complexity, layers of causation and layers of
blame in a situation like this. You might end up finding that 20 people
were 5% to blame but it just so happened that all 20 made the wrong
mistake at the wrong time to cause 100% failure.

But you do have some good advice here regarding power. Thanks.

Michael Dillon                   -               ISP & Internet Consulting
Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael () memra com

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