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From: Carol Swinehart <>
Subject: Rootsweb more problems
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:50:34 -0500


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>Subject: Re: What is happening??
>Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 23:50:21 -0800
>From: Brian Leverich <>
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>-- Your message was: (from ""W. David Samuelsen"")
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>> 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.
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>
>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
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