Mark,

That will teach you not to rely on something other than the HP3000!  I
know, I know, ... the software wasn't available for the HP3000....I have
heard about a lot of people porting software for the HP3000.   ;-)

Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Bixby [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 7:50 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Downstream Newsfeed Interruption
>
> My 9000/G30 that feeds Joe with Usenet crashed sometime around
> 0700-0900 PDT
> on Saturday July 10th.  Its dead power supply was replaced at 1730 PDT
> on
> July 12th, and as I type this at 1945 PDT, the machine is being
> firehosed
> with 2.5 days of full-feed Usenet backlog.
>
> The HP3000-L traffic backlog has already probably been gatewayed into
> Usenet,
> and I'm guessing it may take about 2 days for the Usenet traffic
> backlog to
> be gatewayed into HP3000-L.
>
> I'm sure that HP apologizes for having a second 9000 power supply die
> on me
> within a couple of months.  ;-)
> --
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