[Sca-cooks] OT? List volume

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Yup, I've notices my volume of e-mails has been less than a third of
what I normally get on a daily basis. Of course, the interesting part is
that the internet was originally designed to route information to its
destination in case of nuclear war or some other disaster (like burning rail
cars, I guess) regardless of breaks in the network.
    We had a case down here where a backhoe operator cut a fiberoptic line
north of Orlando, and most of peninsular florida was cut off completely - no
LD phone service, either. I assume that the national defense aspects of the
internet has gone by the wayside . . .
    My question is, when the lines are fixed, are we going to all get
swamped with a barrage of messages in queue somewhere?

    Sieggy

----- Original Message -----

> Greetings,
>
>   Did the list volume just sharply drop from the past few days because
> it is the weekend?  Or is it just me not getting stuff?  Or are other
> people having serious 'net problems related to the Baltimore train fire?
>
>   Living in Baltimore, I expect bad net right now.  However, the evening
> news says places as far away as Africa are 20x slower on 'net stuff
> because of all the burning fiber optic cables.  And my friend from
> Worldcomm says they know to the second the fire started because they
> suddenly couldn't get Chicago, New York, or anything north of Baltimore.
>
> -M