They pulled a BIFF

Tue Oct 20 20:16:25 UTC 1998

Early 1990's, when I was at Rutgers in NJ, we called it:

  "Backhoe-Induced Deep Fade"

Kelly J.

On Oct 20,  7:27am, TTSG wrote:
> Subject: They pulled a BIFF
*Hi,
*
*	I was wondering if anyone has heard of the following term. I
*received it as a notification of an outtage from a vendor :
*
*At 5:35 CST, October 19, 1998 our AT&T backbone had 23 T-3's cut by a 
*contractor.  This caused a massive BIFF (Backhoe Induced Fiber Failure).
*
*				Tuc/TTSG
*
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