that's the kind of thing. the one that comes to mind for me is the 9 hour AT&T long distance outage of 1990: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html http://www.mit

that's the kind of thing. the one that comes to mind for me is the 9 hour AT&T long distance outage of 1990: http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html http://www.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html -- it's these kind of emergent outages that really interest me