A summary of few of the larger infrastructure issues in the last few days January 3-4 (18+ hours) MCI Worldcom had water problems in a New York/New Jersey office (the reports haven't clearly identified the location) damaging some unspecified equipment. At least two OC48s are out of service. See next issue. January 1-3 Severe winter weather across the midwest to the east coast. Sporadic power outages in multiple states affecting 450,000 people. 39 deaths. One news station reported 7 counties in central Illinois lost telephone service. Travel conditions have greatly increased repair response times in affected areas. If last year is a guide, major problems won't surface until the weather warms up a bit. Flooding and heavy equipment use caused several post-winter storm outages last winter. I did read the other thread. What the rough consensus was wasn't clear to me, so I'm going ahead with this message. -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation