Author: Frank Koenig
Date: 22:31:46 02/16/00
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On February 16, 2000 at 21:49:18, Paul Massie wrote: >It's particularly unforgivable in this case, since much of "Kasparovchess" is >apparently based in Israel, and they should be very familiar with the chronic >problems with ISPs in Israel. My company has a subsidiary based in Israel, and >they take it as a matter of course that they'll be offline for hours or even a >day or two occasionally. It's apparently quite a common problem there, and >there's no excuse for them failing to make provisions for it. One of the provisions that the DJ team should have undertaken was to arrange for alternate access through another ISP. I cannot imagine that there are so few ISPs in a contry like Israel that dial-up via ISDN or even analogue is not available from several different providers. It may not justify GM Adams's actions, but the whole thing could have been prevented in this way.
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