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They pulled a BIFF

From: TTSG <ttsg () ttsg com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:27:44 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

        I was wondering if anyone has heard of the following term. I
received it as a notification of an outtage from a vendor :

At 5:35 CST, October 19, 1998 our AT&T backbone had 23 T-3's cut by a 
contractor.  This caused a massive BIFF (Backhoe Induced Fiber Failure).

                                Tuc/TTSG

Current thread:

They pulled a BIFF TTSG (Oct 20)
- Re: They pulled a BIFF Andrew W. Smith (Oct 20)
- Re: They pulled a BIFF Dan Boehlke (Oct 20)
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  - Re: They pulled a BIFF Kelly J. Cooper (Oct 20)