Recent list outage

[Craig Clark]

Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu>

> Hello fellow p-listers,
> 
> Before you wonder again whatever happened to the list over the past few
> days, here is the scoop from W.A.S.T.E. Management:
> 
> > The system experienced some unexpected internet link outage (40 hours,
> > actually) due to some hardware problems at our service provider's site.
> > I expect this to result in a few unnecessary bounced messages for some
> > hard to deliver mail, but everything else should be back to normal
> > now.  Mail times out after 3 days, so the messages should still be
> > deliverable - it shouldn't be necessary for anyone to resend any mail.
> 
> Just another instance of the chaotic routing practices of W.A.S.T.E.

This happened simultaneously with my server here at the University of 
Natal in Durban, South Afrrica, going on the blink. Maybe you think 
it's a coincidence but I think it's a plot.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"