Re: Verizon Dumping Usenet Servers

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:36:17 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:24:31 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
<mike.terrell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Joerg wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Joerg wrote:
Mycelium wrote:
On Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:19:02 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

And that is less expensive than a bucket truck?

I am from Cincinnati, and the entire county is wired up with the
spacings mentioned.

You mean 3ft between telco and cable TV? That doesn't make any sense to me.

I wired a lot of it myself.

I am surprised that I am not dead from the PCB coated telephone poles I
have hugged over the years.

I've hugged some poles as well but they weren't PCB coated, just
creosoted at the bottom AFAIR. This was in Europe where they didn't have
steps mounted into them. You had to don the irons.


New poles are pressure treated. I haven't seen a pole with steps in
over 40 years. I have seen a few wood poles used for antennas with them,
but they were fairly decayed. Climbing hooks replaced them to keep kids
and morons from getting hurt. They should have just posted signs
stating that their relatives would have to pay cleanup costs when they
climned, and fell.


Somehow you must live on a different planet :-)

Yesterday I looked at all this stuff during our dog walk, because of
this thread. Almost every pole has the steps, including ones they've
replaced recently. But the steps don't start until 10ft up or so. They
also do not reach past the telco/cable height.


They never did.

What you see in one city doesn't mean everything is like that. Most
telehone service is fiber to within a mile of homes. There is no large
central office, just a small number of buildings acattered around the
county that are about the size of a two car garage.

It sounds like your city is 30 years out of date if they are still
using steps, if there is no room to use a ladder to reach them.

Around here we have buildings, scattered thru our neighborhoods, that
look exactly like a regular house, until, up close, you notice barred
windows. These house the "local" central office.

Never seen one of them. Maybe because they did such a good job at
camouflage. ;-) The one's I've seen are like bunkers; huge brick and
mortar buildings with no windows. There are cabinets spread around
the neighborhoods that look like small metal sheds, always next to a
large pole, sometimes in the air bolted to it.
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