Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> There's been the Internet equivalent of a hurricane this week, supposedly > caused by a fire in a tunnel in Baltimore that destroyed thousands of > strands of fiber optic cable. Like every other mail server around, > mejac.palo-alto.ca.us has been overwhelmed by it. The symptoms are that you > will see avalanches of several-day-old mail. I haven't yet figured out > whether I can do anything about it, and my options are limited because I'm > on a dialup thousands of miles from my computers. But I'll be home > tomorrow, in case the problem is persistent and in case there is something > I can do about it. > > This morning there were 35,000 undelivered mail messages waiting on mejac > for delivery. They were undelivered because it had not been possible to > deliver them earlier. > Yes! I keep getting mail from Saturday and Sunday delivered over & over, I delete it then when I hit recieve for new mail it all comes back again. And I live about 20 miles from the 'tunnel' sl