On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Joe Abley wrote: > I don't recall any any incidents during which similar numbers of people > lost all internet access, or all telephone access, for as long as the > power has been out -- and it's difficult to imagine a scenario in which > that could happen (other than another widespread power failure). > > Reliability is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.
If the net as a whole had to run at only 10-15% excess capacity or suffer EQUIPMENT damage to the components, it would have happened MANY times already. See ms blaster. Jason -- Jason Slagle - CCNP - CCDP /"\ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign . X - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail . / \ - NO Word docs in e-mail .