RW> BTW, is your system down all of the time? Or just when mine is
 RW> attempting to send you mail? Ping log from just a few minutes ago.

ping sucks for diagnostics... use traceroute but understand that, like
ping, not all systems will respond... traceroute will get you responses
from systems in the path whereas ping doesn't and so doesn't give any idea
where the breakage may be...

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