USGS returns to the Internet

Mon Dec 10 01:38:39 UTC 2001

On Sun, 9 Dec 2001, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> A judge *ordered* the DOI offline. A different judge *allowed* Excite at home
> to terminate service against the wishes of the cable companies that
> Excite had contracts with. They are indeed two different things.

You are absolutely correct.  IANAL, I defer legal questions to those
people that are.

As an engineer I look at the result: service was disrupted.