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INTERNET CONNECTION DOWN TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 24
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At about 6:00 AM today (Tuesday, June 24) a fiber optic cable failed at
UUNET's hub in Vienna, Virginia.  Technicians from UUNET Technologies and
the local telco are working on the problem, but as of 8:45 AM they were
unable to estimate when it will be repaired.
 
Our connection to the rest of the Internet is via that hub.  This means we
are cut off from the rest of the world until the cable is repaired.  You
will be able to access resources on BCPL's wide area network, but you will
not be able to access anything outside BCPL.  People outside the BCPL WAN
will not be able to access any resources at BCPL. 

All e-mail you write while the connection is down will be queued up for
delivery after the connection is restored. Any mail from the outside world
addressed to you will be queued on one of UUNET's mail exchange computers
for delivery to BCPL once the connection is restored.

I will post updates on the situation when/if they become available.

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your BCPL Internet Account, please contact the BCPL Help Desk.

 Phone:   410-887-3297
 FAX:     410-887-2091
 E-Mail:  help@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us

 Help Pages:            http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/help.html
                        (or enter "help" at the UNIX shell prompt)

 System News Archives:  http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/sysnews.html
                        (or enter "sysnews" at the UNIX shell prompt)