mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers) (12/22/86)
The system ``cogent'' will be down for a few days while our HP 550 (slow turtle) is replaced with an HP 840 (fast fast fast!). We will be out of touch (but aren't we anyway?) during that time. If we anticipate being down for longer than we like, I'll try to arrange to be up just long enough to get my mail/news and relieve the folks who feed us (thanks to you all, by the way!). People sending mail, please be patient if you don't hear from us, wait a while before re-writing. I hope this is the right group to post this to. If not, can someone please get word to the correct newsgroup (we'll be down, otherwise we would do it ourselves). thanks. Oh, one other thing. I notice that the one year anniversary of the Challenger tragedy is coming up. It was quite an event to me, I would think many people on the net would feel the same. What are the possibilities of the net doing something like a day of ``uucp silence'' in memorial (e.g. halting uucp transfers for one day). This could be a way for us all to ``wave our flags at half mast'' in a sense. If this is difficult then perhaps something else of a similar type? Does anyone have suggestions? I may do it myself voluntarily. How many others are interested? Perhaps a subset of the net could do it on a voluntary basis. Well??? You folks talk about it while we are down and I'll check back with you all after we're on-line again. See y'all in a week. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark Steven Jeghers ECHOMPGULP - process has eaten it | | cryptography, terrorist, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO | | | | {ihnp4,cbosgd,lll-lcc,lll-crg}|{dual,ptsfa}!cogent!mark | | | | Cogent Software Solutions can not be held responsible for anything said | | by the above person since they have no control over him in the first place | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) (12/23/86)
In article <117@cogent.UUCP:, mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers) writes:
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: ... What are the
: possibilities of the net doing something like a day of ``uucp silence''
: in memorial (e.g. halting uucp transfers for one day). This could be a
: way for us all to ``wave our flags at half mast'' in a sense.
Hasn't 'np4 been doing this for the last two months??? (A joke. Honest.)
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