Stepwise and the announce newsgroup down

[Chuck Swiger]

Scott Anguish asked me to post this for him:

A recent electrical storm took down the leased data lines for Scott's
machines. This means that stepwise.com and the Stepwise WWW server,
comp.sys.next.announce, and digifix.digifix.com are temporarily no longer
connected the Internet.

It would probably be a good idea to stop posting messages to c.s.n.announce
until Scott lets us know that his machines are back up (post anything that
can't wait to misc).

Thanks,
-Chuck
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Charles Swiger -- ch...@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
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CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator

[Chuck Swiger]

Hello, all:

Stepwise and comp.sys.next.announce are still down as of 20:30 GMT,
7-August-1995. Scott Anguish asked me to post an update for him:

"The problem is with the Bell Canada circuit. There is a remote
possibility that [Scott's] CSU/DSU also got zapped, but [he] won't know for
sure until things are tested at the Bell Canada end. It's going to be
difficult to get Bell out Monday, since it's a state holiday."

"Everything possible is being done to fix the problem."