OT - are there telco lightning protection guidelines?

[Benjamin Minshall]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Ben Pfaff
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 2:21 PM
> To: Mike Rambo
> Cc: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: Re: OT - are there telco lightning protection
> guidelines?
>

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>
> Your best bet is probably to get phone line surge
> protectors.

If you use a UPS (which I _highly_ recommend), check to see if it
has built-in phone, ethernet, and coax surge protection.  Many
models have some or all of the above in addition to traditional
AC power protection.

>  I
> don't imagine you have any practical recourse against the phone
> company, whether you're in the right or not.  They have more
> lawyers than you do.
>
> Homeowner's insurance sometimes covers this sort of thing, BTW.
> A friend of mine got his whole computer replaced that way once.
> --
> "Ho ho ho. I _so_ enjoy making a fool out of myself."
> --Linus, on Christmas Day, 2000
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