Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: NYTel Still On Strike and Vandalism Message-ID:Date: 30 Sep 89 01:33:07 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC, NY Lines: 19 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 421, message 3 of 8 Just in case you forgot that NYTel is still on strike and that vandalism is still going on, I heard on the radio a couple of days ago of another incident involving some underground cables being cut on Long Island, depriving about 4000 customers of phone service. NYTel has raised their reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of vandals to $100,000. Then again, maybe it had nothing to do with the strike -- Metro North (Amtrack commuter service into Grand Central Terminal) reports continuing problems with people stealing the copper cables used for their low-voltage signal lines (there is a big black market in stolen copper, be it stolen cables or copper plumbing stripped from abandoned buildings). Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu "The connector is the network"