Entry 16944 (Berkeley CSUA MOTD)

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1999/11/23-25 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:16944 Activity:moderate

11/23   Agate is down?  Is it short term or long term?
        \_ read ucb.news.announce
           \_ cute.  And how would I do this without being able to read
              news?
              \_ Use the Force, Luke.
           \_ Will someone with access to the ucb.* hierarchy please
              summarize? --dim
              \_ The point is that agate is the official news server.
                 Hence you won't be able to see any messages to
                 ucb.* newsgroups if it's down.  (They *do* go to
                 http://deja.com, but I didn't see any new ones.) -emarkp
                 \_ Sorry. I thought maybe the downtime was scheduled
                    and someone had read about it beforehand. --dim
        \_ It's back up now (Tue Nov 23 16:47:41 PST 1999). --dim
                                                     \_ planning for this
                                                        motd to be around
                                                        a while?

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