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echo: locsysop
to: Rod Speed
from: Paul Edwards
date: 1996-12-27 11:54:16
subject: system outage

PE> Nope, not OS/2 this time.  Fierce winds took out my electricity
PE> supply yesterday, and it looks like they took out one of my phones
PE> too.  I thought you guys were just petty morons who thought Christmas
PE> was time to spend time with your family, and that Dave's phone was
PE> just not answering.  5pm on the 25/12/96 was the last contact with
PE> the outside world.  I knew something was wrong when there was no
PE> mail for me at 4pm on 26/12/96.  Telecom are looking at it now.

RS> Thats unusual. I was getting busy from you
RS> thru the morning, didnt try in the arvo at all.

RS> You quite sure that the problem wasnt just that your modem
RS> had the line off hook and was too stupid to notice that ?

Yes, I replaced all the computer stuff with a single T200R and the phone
was dead.  I knew the phone worked.  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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