hobbit@topaz.rutgers.edu (*Hobbit*) (02/08/90)
When NJB here first started letting customers shoulder the burden of inside wire maintenance, I was just moving into an apartment building. An afternoon of running around with a butt set allowed me to tell them "I'll maintain it", but with crawling around in the basement and the attic it was a bit of a pain. I like to do that sort of thing, so it would have been a much *grander* pain for most other folks. Not to mention that some buildings really do keep their phone closets locked. It was a two-story affair, and the wiring took the form of six pairs looped from the box up through one wall shared by the upstairs and downstairs, down through another shared wall, and everything terminated in the *attic*, under the fiberglass, with those horrible little white crimp-on connectors. At least they left sufficient room for expansion, because my roomie and I had three pairs between us. _H*