***** Off Topic - Delete now if you are humor impaired! ***** Here's a recent incident and an earlier one I just found amusing enough to keep. These are both voice services, not data. I honestly wish I had saved more of these. There have been quite a few and some had some entertaimnent value. Please respect the "Reply-To". This *isn't* worth further discussion. Curtis ps- thought we needed some cheering up. If word gets out about this people might be reluctant to use voice services. ;-) pps- if IP service is as bad as Bell Atlantic Answer Call then people will leave their IP service provider so in a sense that's no joke. ------- Forwarded Messages Received: from interlock.ans.net (interlock.ans.net [147.225.5.5]) by brookfield.ans.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06101 for <curtis@brookfield.ans.net>; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:56:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by interlock.ans.net id AA06319 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for ans-world@ans.net); Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:56:41 -0400 Received: by interlock.ans.net (Internal Mail Agent-2); Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:56:41 -0400 Message-Id: <199609171256.AA04835@interlock.reston.ans.net> Received: by interlock.ans.net (Internal Mail Agent-1); Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:56:41 -0400 X-Mailer: InterCon TCP/Connect II 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 08:59:42 -0700 From: "Carol Harvey" <harvey@reston.ans.net> To: ans-world@ans.net Cc: ans-reston@ans.net Subject: Voice Mail Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline There is a system-wide outage of the Bell Atlantic Answer Call (Voice Mail) in the Northern Virginia Area. They are working on the problem and will restore voice mail as soon as possible. The good news is -- we get our own in-house voice mail with our new phone system this Friday. Carol ------- Message 2 Received: from interlock.ans.net (interlock.ans.net [147.225.5.5]) by brookfield.ans.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12714 for <curtis@brookfield.ans.net>; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:54:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: by interlock.ans.net id AA13449 (InterLock SMTP Gateway 3.0 for ans-world@ans.net); Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:53:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199604240253.AA13449@interlock.ans.net> Received: by interlock.ans.net (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-2); Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:53:27 -0400 Received: by interlock.ans.net (Protected-side Proxy Mail Agent-1); Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:53:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 22:53:25 EDT From: David Bolen <db3l@ans.net> To: ans-world@ans.net Subject: Elmsford phones: It's alive! @begin(heavy sarcasm) Well, that was fun... @end(heavy sarcasm) Ok, our local PRI to NYNEX has been restored. While the backup analog connections still require the PBX cards that are getting replaced tomorrow, since the primary route (the PRI) has been restored, all phone services should be back to normal. Direct dialing Elmsford extensions is again working, Elmsford users can make 800 number calls, and local calls from Elmsford are going out over the local circuits. For those interested... It turns out that my "lost" NYNEX technician did in fact find some problems in the basement (rather than in the NYNEX shelf in the lab, which only needed a fuse replaced), but it was in gear he wasn't in the right group to "touch". So when he finally showed up again (around 8pm) he informed me he had requested that the "Hi-Tech" group (T1 and data services) dispatch someone. Luckily, they work 24 hours, and are generally on top of things. A pair (lookie - _two_ techs showed up at once to work together, what a concept) got here by about 10:15pm, and everything was up and running again within 20-30 minutes, after replacing some gear in the basement. So it only took me about 55 hours to get an appropriate crew from NYNEX to show up to handle a 20 minute, "obvious" job... I don't know whether to laugh in relief that it's over or cry in despair over what it took.... But we're back up. - -- David ------- End of Forwarded Messages