🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: alt.internet.media-coverage
Article #85

Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11

#85
From: Black Lodge Engineering
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 00:00
17 lines
1401 bytes
Daniel Burkes wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Oct 1996 20:42:01 -0700, Rich Graves
> <llurch@Networking.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> 
> >As many as one of every six telephone calls in Silicon Valley now
> >doesn't go through on the first try because Internet denizens are
> >tying up the lines, Pacific Bell reported Wednesday.
> 
> That sounds like *total* BS to me-  I live in Sunnyvale and work in
> San Jose, and I can't ever recall having had a call not "go through on
> the first try!"  Either I'm lucky or somebody's exagerating....hmmmm

Hmmm this ... try out of Santa Clara bucko ... they are not making this
up ... and it
isn't only PacBell ...
Technical Details
Message-ID: <32727D9E.4A66@pacbell.net>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <Pine.GUL.3.95.961024202749.24299C-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU> <32707887.8911014@news.scruznet.com>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 105b42,70f9b9e629946fc2
X-Google-Attributes: gid105b42,public
X-Google-Thread: fa874,70f9b9e629946fc2
X-Google-Attributes: gidfa874,public
From: Black Lodge Engineering <ble@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: Merc: PacBell predicts imminent death of the net; film at 11
Date: 1996/10/26
Message-ID: <32727D9E.4A66@pacbell.net>
X-Deja-AN: 192358249
references: <Pine.GUL.3.95.961024202749.24299C-100000@Networking.Stanford.EDU> <32707887.8911014@news.scruznet.com>
content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
organization: Church of the Wailing Diva
mime-version: 1.0
reply-to: ble@pacbell.net
newsgroups: alt.internet.media-coverage,ba.internet
x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I)