Recent list outage

[Tom Evans]

Actually, I am grateful for the outage, if there was one.  Hurricane Fran
has had me off line since the 5th.  The mailbox was full enough as it was.

At 09:09 AM 9/20/96 SAST, Craig Clark wrote:
>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"
>
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