Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:48:32 -0400 (EDT) From: BCPL.NET SysAdmin To: BCPL.NET News Subject: BCPL.NET NEWS: News Server ---------------------------------- NEWS.ABS.NET EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE ---------------------------------- ABSnet Internet Services has informed us that their Usenet News server (news.abs.net) will be down for part of this afternoon (Wednesday, May 3) or part of tomorrow (Thursday, May 4) for replacement of several faulty hard drives and the installation of additional disk space. The faulty drives have been causing read errors, which those of you who read Usenet News via news.abs.net may have experienced as sluggish response to message lookups. We don't know exactly when news.abs.net will be down, so if you try to read news but get no response from the server, please try again later. -- BCPL.NET INTERNET SERVICES CONTACTS: ----------------------------------- Web Site: http://www.bcpl.net 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