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They pulled a BIFF

  • From: TTSG
  • Date: Tue Oct 20 08:28:56 1998 
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