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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Thanks to all--medical emergency under control
> On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > > > Thanks to everyone who responded. I was eventually able to reach one of > > the providers, who was able to identify the callers through logs, and > > passed the information to the local emergency people. The patient is now > > under treatment, and did not take a lethal dose. > > I'd just like to point out the similarity between this event and the use > of the phone company to track down suicide callers. This reminds me of > several 40's or 50's B&W movies with people running down banks of relays > looking for the connection. I suspect that as the use of the Internet as a > communications tool pervades our culture more deeply these events will > occur with increased frequency. > > This is just one more good reason for every provider to have a > 24/7 NOC service even if it just gets call-forwarded to someone > asleep in bed. Add to this that this is the second time in 6 months I have heard of a such an incident where the net was usefull in stopping this. Reminds me of the time a guy walked into our offices and turned over the handgun he had been toying around with the night before because one of our staff convinced him not to use it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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