[geeks] backups

[Mike Nicewonger]

On Sun, 02 Dec 2001, you wrote:
> > Yeah, but the guy with the backhoe out in the parking lot doesent care..
> 
>     I was talking to someone who worked at an ISP one time (toad.net I
> believe), who said that they once lost all their T1s.  A standard telco
> repairman came out to fix the phone lines of the office next to them, and
> while he was there, he tested all the lines in their box with a telephone
> line tester, finding that there was no signal, he cut and capped all their
> incoming and outgoing T1s.
>     Of course, the ISP took the blame from the customers.

Yepper, standard phone dude stuff, no dial tone = wire I can use

Bone heads.

Mike N