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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 01:59:16 GMT
- From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: All Circuits Are Busy Now ...
- Message-ID: <telecom13.2.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 2, Message 1 of 12
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- John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>:
-
- > How soon we forget. Hours after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, I
- > tried at some length to get though to my home from southern
- > California. All circuits were busy. Then I tried Sprint. The call
- > went right through. Discussions right here on the Digest pointed to
- > the policy of AT&T of purposely restricting incoming access to a
- > disaster area. I, for one, was very grateful for the fact that AT&T's
- > policies are not always imitated by the competitors.
-
- I am, personally, very grateful that AT&T's policy was as it was. It
- enabled me to *reach* my loved ones outside the area quickly when I
- *could* get to a phone and *chose* to contact them, rather than being
- locked out by my neighbor's Aunt Minnie calling their answering
- machine to see if the cat was OK.
-
- The disaster area residents should be in control of the flow of
- information and the resources used to achieve it. AT&T made a
- splendid call on that one.
-
-
- ROGER B.A. KLORESE +1 415 ALL-ARFF
- rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
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