<html><head></head><body>Come on lighting strike!!!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 16, 2020 4:50:09 PM EDT, Derek Atkins via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br>On Tue, June 16, 2020 4:39 pm, Alex Carver wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><br> If I can wait a bit longer they may have to upgrade the neighborhood on<br> their dime instead of mine. Right now the copper system is very old and<br> deteriorating. I've had to have the line crew out twice because the<br> pair I was on had degraded. On the last visit the crew told me that the<br> neighborhood only had two spare pairs, all the others were in use.<br> Because of the two calls the two spares are gone and we're now with zero<br> spares. They told me one more outage would force them to replace<br> everything because they would not have the spares. So we'll see what<br> happens.<br><br></blockquote><br>Sounds like they just told you how to force their hand!!!<br><br>-derek<br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>"no government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but an oligarchy managed in the interests of the few.” - John Dewey</body></html>