This is why HAM radios and the appropriate licenses can come in very handy, especially in cases of emergency or natural disaster. Does anyone in the business use RF for backup communications? -- Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net Freelance Computer Security Consultant and Perl Programmer Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am." On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
At the last NANOG several folks chuckled when I pointed out that many real emergency plans include sending a FAX as a backup when the phones don't work. I thought I would pass this news story along.
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/070399/com_phonesout.shtml -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation