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USENET NEWS SERVER DOWN                              27 Oct 1997
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Access to Usenet News this past weekend was pretty unreliable, with the
news server (news.abs.net)  down more than it was up.  We have just
received word from ABSnet that the problem has been diagnosed as failure
of two disk drives in the server's primary disk array, and that all
attempts to get those drives to work reliably have failed.

ABSnet has ordered a complete new disk array, but even with express
delivery it will not arrive until Tuesday. Therefore Usenet News service
from ABSnet will probably remain unavailable until late Tuesday or some
time Wednesday.

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