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Mark Drury

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Mar 31, 2004, 2:44:34 PM3/31/04

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Dear all

Due to a fire in a BT cable tunnel in Manchester, the UK's National Library
for the Blind currently has no functional phone lines.

Therefore no calls can be made or received, similarly no faxes or e-mails.

This also means that the main NLB website (www.nlb-online.org) is
also out of action as the server is based at NLB. Some of the others such as
Visugate (www.visugate.org.uk) are still running as they are hosted
off-site.

At present the only way to communicate with NLB is by post, which is
unaffected.

We are very sorry about the disruption this is causing and at this time, BT
are unable to tell us when the situation will be resolved.

Best wishes

Mark Drury
Head of Marketing
NLB

Andrew Hodgson

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Mar 31, 2004, 4:38:45 PM3/31/04

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:44:34 +0100, "Mark Drury" <nos...@ta.com>
wrote:

>Dear all
>
>Due to a fire in a BT cable tunnel in Manchester, the UK's National Library
>for the Blind currently has no functional phone lines.
>
>Therefore no calls can be made or received, similarly no faxes or e-mails.
>
>This also means that the main NLB website (www.nlb-online.org) is
>also out of action as the server is based at NLB. Some of the others such as
>Visugate (www.visugate.org.uk) are still running as they are hosted
>off-site.

Note I can gain access to www.nlb-online.org fine from here using a
Demon ISDN connection.

Andrew.
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Andrew Hodgson in Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
My Email: use <andrew at hodgsonfamily dot org>.

Brian Gaff

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Apr 1, 2004, 4:27:02 AM4/1/04

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Do we believe this or put it down to April 1st?

Brian

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Andrew Hodgson

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Apr 1, 2004, 9:56:45 AM4/1/04

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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:27:02 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
<Bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Do we believe this or put it down to April 1st?

Well I couldn't access Aria all Tuesday because of the lines in
Manchester, though I believe most of the cabling has now been fixed
after the fire was put out.

Andrew.
>
>Brian

Chris McMillan

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Apr 1, 2004, 10:56:36 AM4/1/04

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In message <c4go1h$2hrbb1$1...@ID-105134.news.uni-berlin.de>, Brian Gaff
<Bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> writes

>Do we believe this or put it down to April 1st?
>

No it was true OK. The fire story was on the radio news yesterday
morning.

Sincerely Chris

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alex stone

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Apr 2, 2004, 4:53:26 AM4/2/04

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Brian, This is for real, I believe they've got their phone lines back
today though.
Cheers.
Alex
"Brian Gaff" <Bri...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Do we believe this or put it down to April 1st?
>
> Brian
>
> --
> Brian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email.
> graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them
> Email: bri...@blueyonder.co.uk
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