The PVC that coats the non-plentum wire gives off REAL toxic gasses when it burns. Cyanide if I remember right. Many buildings put the cable in the ceiling, which is used as a cold return. A slow smoldering fires may not give off much smoke, but enough toxins to harm. Michael Ableyev said: > Plenum cables are covered with fire retardant of some sort or other. > That's all there's to it, I frankly, don't see why in the world they're > so desired. > If it's fear of intoxication, then having plenum cables gives only a > false sense of security cos in a burning building there are usually > enough of other toxic materials to sniff yourself dead. Oh, and also > the thing most people die of in a completely toxin free building fire - > ye ol' smoke. Someone, please, educate me as well, the rest of the world > can't be so ignorant, i'm proly missing something. :-) > > AIRPLANEIT at aol.com wrote: >> OK, I gotta ask what plenum cable is... is it sheilded or something? >> >> -Nick > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list