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From: "Henry Holloway" <>
Subject: [GenChat-L] Fw: hardware failure
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 10:30:35 -0800

Tracy and everyone else,
Here's one of the answers to the delays in email over the last few days.
Tracy, hope I didn't commit a mortal sin forwarding this to the list but
thought everyone might like to know the real reason "it takes 24 hours to
get email".

Hank

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> From: Steve Coker <>
> To:
> Subject: hardware failure
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 10:18 AM
>
> Subject: Re: What is happening??
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:50:21 -0800
> From: Brian Leverich <>
>
> Pac Bell has had a hardware failure on the T1 frame relay circuit between
> RootsWeb's main listserver and the Internet backbone.
>
> Pac Bell is aware of the problem and is working now to fix it. In the
meantime,
> we have been doing what we can to work around the problem. That means K
& I
> have been continuously monitoring the mail hub and list server machines
and
> manually controlling their operations to exploit the connection when the
frame
> relay circuit is up and to protect the listserver from damage when the
frame
> relay circuit goes down.
>
> My guess is that things will be fully back to normal sometime tomorrow.
-B
>
> --
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>
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