HI.... Thought you all would like to see what might be happening to the net... Hopefully, it will be better sometimes tomorrow.... kaite... >Resent-Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:45:38 -0800 (PST) >To: dsam@wasatch.com >cc: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com, > "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Reply-to: "Dr. Brian Leverich" <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Subject: Re: What is happening?? >Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:50:21 -0800 >From: Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> >Resent-Message-ID: <"HCpq6D.A.1WE.6H5B1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> >Resent-From: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <listowners-announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/38 >X-Loop: listowners-announce@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: listowners-announce-request@rootsweb.com > > > >-- Your message was: (from ""W. David Samuelsen"") > >> I am getting the messages that clearly showed delayed delivery. >> >> Did some idiotic spammer hit Rootsweb? >> >> Would that explain why I couldn't access lists.rootsweb.com in order to >> take care of subscribe and unsubscribe earlier today? >> >> Kindly post through listowners-announce list if it warrants this. > > ------------------ > > >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 > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com > >