Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] at home outage

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Mark Rages wrote:

> I got that too today... This came in campus mail,
> think it's related?

[snip]

>   LONG-DISTANCE SERVICE DISRUPTION;
>   FIBER CABLE CUT ON COLLEGE AVENUE
> 
>   MU telephone users will experience a "fast busy"
>   when dialing long-distance and toll-free numbers
>   that travel on the AT&T network because of a City of
>   Columbia construction accident on College Avenue at
>   Walnut Street. All AT&T customers throughout the 
>   city are affected by this disruption.

Yeah, I would guess this is has something to do with it.
 
For the absurdly curious, I got word that it was yet another demonstration
of what happens when a backhoe gets close enough to lit-up fiber optic
cable; basically, at some relatively short distance (a couple of yards is
close enough), the force of attraction between steel digging blade and
cable became nearly infinitely great, causing the blade to move towards
the cable at an incredibly high speed...apparently, this kind of thing
is the current best evidence in favor of the existence of the elusive
Fifth Force of Nature that has been posited at various times recently.

jking

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