Foggy Listserver Breakdown

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Almost as soon as I sent out the message informing the list about the
source of the server problems at Berkeley (a rouge hacker) PaleoNet, along
with several other Berkeley internet resources went down again. During any
future breakdowns (should they occur) I'm going to take Stefan Bengston's
suggestion and post status reports on the PaleoNet Pages (West and East)
home pages. Since the pages have been more stable than the list itself (at
least over the last few months) posting status reports to the pages during
times of problems seems a natural thing to do. I wish I'd thought of the
idea myself, but I didn't so hats off to Stefan for suggesting it.

If you've posted anything to PaleoNet and haven't seen it come through
please post it again. Rob Guralnick and his colleagues in Berkeley are
still working hard to clean up the mess left behind by the hacker and there
may be a few more surprises in store for us over the next couple of weeks.
If PaleoNet seems to disappear again, check out the pages for the status
report.

Thanks for being patient with us.


Norm MacLeod



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Norman MacLeod
Micropalaeontological Research
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N.MacLeod@uk.ac.nhm (Janet)

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