Re: [TCLUG:15025] ilec/clec wars

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>I seem to remember a "mis-configured backup" that failed a couple years
>ago when some bums set a USWest fiber trunk on fire under the washington
>street bridge, cutting off most of the MN/UofM internet access for 26
>hours.  
        not long after that, I heard a 3rd-hand rumor that the fire wasn't
accidental.. that it was a deliberate attack on the line, and the "fire set
by bums" was just a cover story.
        but it *was* a 3rd-hand story.

Carl Soderstrom
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