| Ever your fan and loyal opposition, The only thing you seem to fan is flames. Why don't you write something useful, like why is it that outage reporting is so spotty, and why is it that people don't seem willing to share technical details of outages such that other technical folks can learn from mistakes and disasters? I can tell you why outage@sprint.net isn't what it used to be: journalists and PR folks would turn detailed technical reports of the scope, cause, and cure for our outages into columns dedicated to bashing cisco, Sprint, or both. There is a disease on the Internet, and that disease is "us and them"ism. You are well-placed to help cure that disease, yet right now you are one of its biggest transmission vectors, Bob, and it's a huge pity. Sean.