Possible? Just about anything is possible.
Probable? No, since the boxes we run here regularly have an empty socket
or two and don't have a problem. The boxes in the lab are constantly
having plugs yanked and moved.
>to a punchdown block, but two of the pairs just terminate there. Can
>anybody disprove this possibility?
You can never disprove a possibility - you cannot prove a negative.
-MZ
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