BG> I wouldn't worry too much, as the mail has been
BG> extremely light up here for a couple of days as well.

RS> Fuck, and here was I fantacising about bothering about a dual feed
RS> with a dupe stripper so that an occasional mail drought with one feed
RS> would be no big deal at all. Not even particularly expensive either.

BG> Not if you call almost doubling your phone
BG> bill "not particularly expensive", I guess.

Yep. And thats essentially what those BBSs etc who do a dual mail run to
their single source of mail do anyway, particularly at local call rates.
One of the odder effects is that STD mail runs can actually be cheaper.

BG> I blame it on Easter myself.

RS> Be interesting to see what it turns out to be. The only stuff
RS> that hasnt been posted on Pauls system directly is just four
RS> messages from that completely rabid loon Grigor-Scott who
RS> also feeds directly off Dave Hatch just like Paul does.

BG> I'd have not only expected things to have returned to normal by now,
BG> but was awaiting quite a large packet as the backlog cleared, but
BG> that just hasn't happened, and I'm now wondering if somebody's system
BG> hasn't actually somehow lost or deleted the missing mail instead.

Yeah, lasting a surprisingly long time. Presumably its either
a hardware failure or someone has gone away like Dave Hatch.

RS> What about the stuff that Alwyn imports direct from OS, surely that
RS> stuff hasnt died as well ?  Tho MB you dont read any of those yourself.

BG> Only HS_MODEMS, and that's been completely dead as well.  It's a worry.

Odder and odder. You cant even blame it on some problem with the internet
feed from the US, albeit thru two different routes as far as I am aware.
That doesnt explain why the stuff like Zone3_Tech has had nothing. Tho
if the internet interface itself has carked it, that would. Odd that it
has affected both Dave Hatch and Alwyn who, as far as I know, interface
to it completely separately.
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