On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:16:18PM -0700, Sean Donelan exclaimed:
A cable cut in Missouri disrupted some services in the southwestern part of the state, including Springfield. Its unclear what services were affected, but 500 Powerball lottery machines were out of service until 3:15 this afternoon.
According to the Associated Press: "The severed line was owned by Sprint Corp., which did not immediately return a phone call."
wow. My hometown area has made it into NANOG. My existence is now justified. :) (maybe that promise I made about not moving back until there were network jobs is about to be fulfilled ...) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m UNIX | IP networks | security | sysadmin | caffeine | BOFH | general geekery GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui