wcs) (10/18/89)
PLEASE SHUT OFF UUCP TO BAY AREA AND MAYBE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. There was a major earthquake in the Bay Area last night, with short-term power disruption and unknown long-term problems. Some buildings have collapsed or burned. Richter 7.0. People are being asked to stay away from work until things are cleared up, so don't expect anything to be fixed for a while. Please don't telephone anyone in the area for a few days. -- # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs # also 201-271-4712 tarpon.att.com!wcs Somerset 4C423 Corp.Pk 3 FAX 469-1355 # .... counting stars by candlelight ....
scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Scott Hazen Mueller) (10/19/89)
In article <4849@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes: >PLEASE SHUT OFF UUCP TO BAY AREA AND MAYBE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. Please ignore this message, at least partially. You may want to shut off automatic polling, but most South Bay Area sites seem to be up and running. -- Scott Hazen Mueller| scott@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (ames|pyramid|vsi1)!zorch!scott 685 Balfour Drive | (408) 298-6213 |Mail to fusion-request@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG San Jose, CA 95111 |No room for quote.|for sci.physics.fusion digests via email
kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (10/19/89)
In article <4849@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs) writes: >PLEASE SHUT OFF UUCP TO BAY AREA AND MAYBE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. The phone system was quite congested today, but by midnight things were working quite fine. Since most long-distance uucp traffic occurs at night this can probably safely be ignored. (The packet nets may be another matter -- the local Telenet 2400 indial does not answer and the 1200 indial seems to be permanently busy. Haven't tried Tymnet.) >Some buildings have collapsed or burned. Relatively few, many if not the majority are (were) residential buildings in San Francisco itself. Plus the bridge and freeway collapses. >People are being asked to >stay away from work until things are cleared up, so don't expect >anything to be fixed for a while. Nonsense. Except for those in San Francisco, most Bay Area businesses were open today, and the few that weren't (notably Apple) will be open tomorrow. And as far as the networks are concerned there doesn't seem to be much in need of repair -- within 24 hours all of ditka's Bay Area uucp neighbors seemed to be back to normal, while both BITNET and the Internet were working fine from SLAC (Stanford) to the outside world today. >Please don't telephone anyone in the area for a few days. A reasonable suggestion, though after midnight PDT it may not much matter. Yes, things are a bit messy here. But there's no need for people going around inciting mass hysteria. -- Karl Swartz |UUCP apple!zygot!ditka!kls 1-408/223-1308 (home) |Internet kls@ebnextk.slac.stanford.edu 1-415/923-3630 (work) |BIX kswartz "I never let my schooling get in the way of my education." (Twain)