rgreene@ricecsvm.rice.edu (Bob Greene) (10/04/90)
Okay, as all of you have no doubt noticed, there was a big cutback in the response time for Sunspots starting roughly late August. In early July, I changed jobs and have since been doing Sunspots remotely across the Internet, additionally, I suddenly found myself in a much more time intensive job than I had previously enjoyed - this brought about the slower turn around times that we saw in mid-late August and early September. In mid September, I also was completely out of state and non-connected for several weeks, which has put the digest into the critical backlog it is now in. This has resulted in a somewhat severe situation. In order to alleviate this condition, I will be journeying back to Rice this upcoming weekend. I plan to bring *everything* completely up to date at this time. That means that all submissions will be processed, all add/drop requests will be processed, and the index files for the archives will be brought up to date. I also would like to do a few of the outstanding things I have on my "Sunspots todo list" including splitting up the archives big files so that they can be retrieved by the archive-server and bringing the disk partition files on line. So, by this upcoming Monday, everything should be up to date. Now, for the bad news: I will be leaving again on Tuesday for a business trip to the Great White North where I am fairly sure that I will be totally unconnected again (the company I am now working for does not have a connection to the Internet for those of you who wondered). So, this means that you can expect another great purge during the week after I return (22 Oct). Thanks again for your patience, and my sincere apologies for the sad state I've let the Digest fall into. Bob Greene Sunspots Moderator RGREENE@RICECSVM.RICE.EDU