[news.config] ncc down temporarily

lyndon@alberta.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) (08/05/87)

Early last week, ncc died without notice. We initially suspected
a cooked disk, however further investigation shows that we have
probably lost the CPU board. As a result, we will probably be
down for at least another 10 days.

I have set up an alternate machine to pick up ncc's mail from
alberta, however mail stacked up at pyramid is still waiting
to get through. I have advised pyramid of our problems, however
they do not seem to be able to reroute our traffic via alberta
(hello pyramid -- did you get the message?).

If anyone gets bounced mail, try resending via ihnp4!alberta!ncc!...
Please DON'T call - I am aware of the problem!!! Thanks.

--
Lyndon Nerenberg
Nexus Computing Corporation
Edmonton, Alberta  (Tornado Capital of Canada)

romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) (08/06/87)

This machine was out for a week when it was commandeered for some
benchmarks.  We're back for the time being, but it may be another
week before things are reliable again.

Mail routed through here got held up and/or ditched.  To compound
matters, messages that I sent out to uucp neighbors from another
machine apparently never made it past a mail queue, so SAs weren't
aware anything was wrong until it was too late.  I suspect Lyndon's
message to pyramid admins may have been stacked up until pyrnj came
back on line Monday night.

There, how's that for a sob story?