Re: Military asking to ISPs to shut down equipment?

["Seth M. Kusiak" <seth.kusiak () yours4less com>]

I just sent eveything that I was forwarded, I don't know anymore nor have I 
heard this from my provider. I find this hard to believe and I just wanted 
to see if someone knew something that I didn't.

kevin pop account writes: 

> Should this request not be via the telcos pre-empting the circuits ? 
>
> Also does the military not operate its own private network services
> both voice/data ? 
>
> Regards,
> Kevin 
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Seth M. Kusiak wrote: 
>
> > Has anyone received a request like the one that was I forwarded below?
> >   
> >
> > [Stuff Deleted]  
> >
> > We just received a call from our ISP that they were contacted by Quest 
> > Communications who is a major National ISP who in tern was contacted by the 
> > Military and were asked to shut down a lot of their equipment connecting 
> > clients to the Internet so that there would be more bandwidth. Other ISP 
> > supposedly received the same call.  
> >
> > Get ready for a big outage....  
> >
> > [More Stuff Deleted]