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MAIL.BCPL.NET WILL BE DOWN SUNDAY MORNING
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MAIL.BCPL.NET, our primary UNIX computer, will be taken off line at about
6:00 AM Sunday, December 5, for an operating system and software upgrade
that will make the computer Y2K compliant.  We will make every effort to
have it back on line by early Sunday afternoon, but we cannot guarantee an
exact time.

While MAIL.BCPL.NET is down you *WILL* be able to do the following:

o Make PPP connections to BCPL.NET.

o Browse the World Wide Web, but not sites hosted on mail.bcpl.net
  (see below for details).

o Read USENET NEWS via news.abs.net.

o Access the text-only version of the Baltimore County Public Library
  catalog by telnetting to opac.bcpl.lib.md.us.

You *WILL NOT* be able to do the following:

o Log into your UNIX shell account.

o Send or receive BCPL.NET e-mail using any e-mail program, including
  WebMail.

o Access any Web pages hosted on mail.bcpl.net.  This includes all
  URLs that begin with the following:

  www.bcpl.net                  www.liftoff.org
  www.bcpl.lib.md.us            www.lvn.org
  www.bcplonline.org            www.maineline.com
  www.allisonfisherfund.org     www.mdcommunitykitchen.org
  www.bcinfobank.com            www.volunteerbco.org
  www.bcinfobank.org            www.wiltondale.org
  www.carlusers.org             www.wouldyoubelieve.com
  www.casabalt.org
   
o FTP files to or from mail.bcpl.net.

o Access the Web-based Baltimore County Public Library catalog at
  carlweb.bcpl.lib.md.us.

Any last-minute changes to the above information will be posted via
additional BCPL.NET System News messages.

BCPL.NET INTERNET SERVICES CONTACTS:
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Administration & Policy:           ispadmin@bcpl.net    410-887-6180
Sales, Renewals, Account Status:   accounts@bcpl.net    410-887-4172
Technical Support (Help Desk):     help@bcpl.net        410-887-3297
Usenet News Newsgroup Requests     news-admin@bcpl.net  410-887-6180
E-Mail & Newsgroup Abuse Reports:  abuse@bcpl.net       410-887-6180
FAX:                                                    410-887-2091
Help Pages:            http://www.bcpl.net/help.html
                       (or enter "help" at the UNIX shell prompt)
System News Archives:  http://www.bcpl.net/sysnews.html
                       (or enter "sysnews" at the UNIX shell prompt)