Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:34:46 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" <john@stoffel.org> Sean> Verizon for all their faults is very good about getting you Sean> reconnected if there is a line down. I could be mistaken, but I Sean> believe that they are required by law to do certain levels of Sean> service. They are required to *try*. Also, my neighborhood is all underground lines, so I only need to worry about the other umpteen miles of wires in the air going down. Flood? Backhoe? -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@alum.mit.edu> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@uunet.uu.net Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton