You may have noticed an absence of HP3000-L mail between 5:30 PM and
10:30 PM EST (despite the mail timestamps) Thursday night.  We lost all
four of our Internet links during that time.  The story reads like one
of Jeff Foxworthy's "You could be a redneck if..." routines (with
apologies to non-US readers).  Some clown in Widow's Creek, Alabama
shredded an above-ground fiber cable with a shotgun.

No joke.

It was a primary MCI-hosted backbone link serving much of the southeast
USA.  While we do not contract directly with MCI, our
providers apparently subcontract from MCI for this particular long
haul link.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>