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Re: Since Apple Listens to this List... [Case Statements]


  • Subject: Re: Since Apple Listens to this List... [Case Statements]
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:53:16 -0800

At 1:03 -0800 2/13/2002, Jim Schram wrote:
>This pretty much shut down the phone system in the entire region for about
>nine hours. If the specific conditions which caused the bug to surface
>hadn't appeared for a few more years (e.g. just long enough for the entire
>country to upgrade the phone switches' software... but not fix the bug)
>well, just think of the havoc that would have ensued all across America.
>Yikes!

A retired PacBell/USWest (retired before Qwest) technician in Portland (OR)
managed to lock up all of greater Portland several years ago (both USWest
and Sprint). It was somewhat similar...he had a work order, he questioned
the engineer who had produced it, suspecting something was wrong, and was
told to go ahead. I've chatted with him at meetings a few times.

--John
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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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