From scott at 4th.com  Fri Jun 15 22:01:57 2007
From: scott at 4th.com (Scott Courtney)
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:01:57 -0400
Subject: [Announce] Server back online after protracted outage today
Message-ID: <200706152201.57556.scott@4th.com>

I am currently so angry I could bite nails in two (not at any of you). My
server has had excellent uptime for the past three years, but this morning
at 3:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern it rolled over and died due to a hardware failure.

This sort of thing happens with any computer. What has me angry is that the
upstream hosting provider, who was supposed to either repair or replace the
failed hardware, allowed this to continue for over TWELVE HOURS after I called
in the problem at 7:30 this morning.

It's back online now, at least mostly. There are some small issues to which
I need to attend. But if you're reading this, then email is fully online.

I'm going to be seeking financial compensation from the provider, because
this was utterly unacceptable.

I apologize to any of you who tried to post to the email lists today.
If you tried to do so today, and it was "deferred" or "delayed", please
wait a bit before trying again, as your sending server will probably
deliver the mail later tonight.

Again, I am deeply sorry for the inconvenience.

Kind regards,

Scott

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