> This sounds like the same deal...Anyone have any thoughts on the > matter? Imho they should fork out a couple of millions and put more separators on the long distance lines so any oops stays local. This took out major cities in two countries and shut down several nuclear power stations. It should have been limited to the area where the overload occured. It would have been if there had been separators installed on the boundaries ... maybe the separation policy could be programmed into existing hardware and would require no extra hardware. Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads