Hi Folks, Here's the lateest. Fred 10:07 AM 3/12/98 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Leverich Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 8:53 AM Subject: Re: What is happening?? > > >-- 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 > > ____________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ Fred Kunchick GSCS[SW] USN Retired Pennsauken NJ kunchick@bellatlantic.net Editor of The Northern KIMBALL On-Line Newsletter Member: NEHGS Camden County (NJ) Historical Society Lo/Lathrop Family Association Kimball Family Association Towne Family Association Home Page: URL: http://members.aol.com/FredKun/index.html Coos County, NH USGenWeb CC. URL: http://members.aol.com/fredkunch/coos.htm Hillsboro County, NH USGenWeb CC. URL: http://members.aol.com/fredkun1/hillsboro.htm Nantucket County, MA USGenWeb CC. URL: http://members.aol.com/fredkunc/nantuckt.htm Suffolk County, MA. USGenWeb CC. URL :http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/5551/ Andover, MA USGenWeb Coordinator URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/6351/index.htm ICQ# 2000494