BBN outage

Tue Oct 15 04:44:31 UTC 1996

On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, Patrick J. Chicas wrote:

> So.. It looks like they abhorently ignored thier power situation. This is
> an "act of stupidity", not an "act of god" as one other person mentioned.

Well, the original outage was caused by a rat gnawing a cable....
There are always layers of complexity, layers of causation and layers of
blame in a situation like this. You might end up finding that 20 people
were 5% to blame but it just so happened that all 20 made the wrong
mistake at the wrong time to cause 100% failure.

But you do have some good advice here regarding power. Thanks.

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