[Outages] internet is broke!

[Gadi Evron]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote:
> Blake Pfankuch wrote:
>> Did you power cycle your dsl modem?  Oh wait not tech support anymore.
>
> Whenever I see one of these "the Intartubes are broke" things in
> Internet email, I am reminded of an event eons ago when I answered an
> alarm on a TJ Radio station (Microwave link) order wire to discover that
> it was the PBX repairman at the distant end announcing that pursuant to
> Circuit Order mumble he had shut down the station there.
>
> I had to convince him that the order wire rode the radio link, and that
> the battery pack in the radio case would keep the station on the air for
>  quite a while after the plug had been pulled from the wall socket.

I was sitting down at the IETF yesterday, obviously bored. Then the 
wireless went down.

I was considering emailing to outages@
:)

 	Gadi.