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Bear in mind that the financial situation at Qwest is bad. They are getting ready to take an estimated $20 to $30 billion writeoff on accounting restatements (mostly of "goodwill") and will probably be sanctioned by the SEC, as indicated in wire stories today. http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2002/04/02/qwest/index.html Their Portland office is across the street from me, and my phone and DSL is dependent on them of course, so this is of direct concern in my case! I should mention that despite its deserved reputation for greedy management (whether as Pacific Northwest Bell, U S West or now Qwest), ops has generally been pretty good and the retail (consumer/ small business) DSL service, from my personal experience, is top notch. (Of course, they run it on FreeBSD so that should tell you something :) We certainly know from experience that a major financial upheaval can affect operations at least indirectly (loss of management attention, budget cuts, deferred maintenance, cutbacks in monitoring and response systems, etc.). On the other hand, it's not a good idea to overreact to news like this. So I would proceed with due caution concerning Qwest transit. As a wise person once said, don't put all your routes in one pipe. Fred
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