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At 14:05 1999/07/16 EDT, you wrote: >It's been awful slow on the list today. >Is everyone (else) taking an early weekend? > nope viz: ----------------------------------------------------- iDirect Digest July 16, 1999 Emergency Announcement: Fire at Bell office downtown Toronto According to reports on 680 News and the CBC Web Site <http://cbcnews.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/templates/view.cgi?/news/1999/07/16/bell99071 6> there is a fire at a Bell Canada Switching Station in downtown Toronto. Service may be interrupted as far away as Vancouver. While this is a service issue at Bell Canada, and we have no control over events during this emergency, Internet Direct regrets any inconvenience this may cause and will work with Bell technicians to restore full service as soon as possible. Toronto Police are advising phone users not to call them downtown unless there is an emergency for the time being. ----------------------------------------------------- i have heard that toronto/ontario/canadian phones, bank atms, cellular services, internet services, even long distance calls from vancouver to asia were affected so i think the university of toronto may have been without phone lines for a bit janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>