Joe Geiser wrote:
>
> Stan complains about the ESC...
>
> The ESC has a promotion going - visit and register, and win an HP Color
> Digital Camera.
>
> I got the message blindly this morning.
>
> Probably why the servers are busy as hell...

Not today. I just went there and saw:

   PLEASE      The HP Electronic Support Center will be unavailable
    NOTE       beginning at 17:00 PST, Friday, February 5, 1999, until
               02:00 PST, Saturday, February 6, 1999, for software
               maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience and
               greatly appreciate your patience.

   HP ESC      The HP ESC Sweepstakes is temporarily unavailable
 Sweepstakes   and will return on Monday, February 8th. Thank you for
               your interest and we apologize for any inconvience.

Say, you don't suppose these two items are related, do you? ;-)

BTW, there's an ESC mirror at <http://us-support2.external.hp.com/>. I
was able to use this Monday night when the regular URL was throwing me
out with "unable to create IPC pipe" errors.

Patrick
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