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Re: (meteorobs) EMERGENCY SHUTDOWN OF THESE LISTS!



At 05:41 PM 10/23/98 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I've just learned that our building will be powered down this
>weekend for maintenance reasons. So I regret to have to let you
>all know that none of the 'latrade.com' mailing lists will be
>available again until noon Sunday, at the earliest.

My own ISP already warned his customers that he, too, would be disconnected
from much of the Internet during this weekend; witness:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Folks,
>
>We have scheduled a system shutdown for Oct. 24th beginning at 10PM and 
>lasting until 6AM Sunday morning, the 25th.  To minimize service 
>disruption, this has been scheduled to coincide with the annual power 
>shutdown at International Place in Boston.  During the outage, power 
>systems and network upgrades will occur at the Boston PoP.
>
>The outage will mainly effect our dedicated WAN and web customers.  
>People using the new V.90 access numbers should not be effected except 
>for inbound mail delays.
>
>We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
>

>Apologies to all for this inconvenience! I'm told it will be a
>once-per-year requirement from now on... At least the shutdown
>didn't occur during the Draconid or Orionid peaks! :)

Looks like I've already lost connectivity here; haven't been able to "send"
a couple of messages during the last few minutes.

>Clear skies to all,

Might be a good time to just go out in the back yard and gaze skyward for a
day or two....

Clear skies,

SteveH
Shrewsbury MA