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Re: Thursday Hawaii telephone mishap

  • From: Rodney Thayer
  • Date: Sat Oct 27 15:13:13 2001 
The question is, did this stop DI from pinging people from their
on-island facilities, and if so, should we ship all our knives
to Verizon -- we could collect them in airport lobbies, like
they collect foreign change in Europe...

At 08:37 AM 10/27/2001 -1000, Michael Painter wrote:


>>Widespread chaos ensued:

"The Maui Visitors Bureau Visitor Information Center  the agency's
tourist
call center on Moloka'i  was crippled for 27 minutes."  :) <<

I -wish- that was the extent of the cut.<smile>

For 6 hours, I was unable to reach any exchange in the state or the
mainland with my Verizon landline.