(This message still hasn't made it to the news server, so now I am
reposting via YahooGroups web site -- my apologize for all the
postings, this will be the last attempt)

All,

I want to make you all aware of a potential outage of the news
server/mirror, which might occur as of this Friday.

Our current ISP notified us 10 days ago that they are terminating
their service/going out of business, effective Feb. 15th.

We have been trying to get an alternate provider, but scheduling
installs doesn't happen overnight. Currently, our new ISP install is
scheduled for Feb. 19th.

To make matters more interesting, on Feb. 5th we received a notice
from another group which has stated that they are negotiating to take
over the ISP customers and there should be no interuption of service
(we use a 4Mb/s wireless connection). At this point in time, however,
we have not received a guarantee that our service will not be
interupted.

So, what does this mean?

At worst, the news server/access will be offline from Feb. 15 to 20th.

At best, the server/access will be unaffected.

Since, I will also lose my internet/mail access when news server
becomes unavailable, please accept my appologizes in advance for any
inconvenience you might experience.



Sean

P.S. To ensure that a similar situation doesn't develop in the
future, we are in the process of provisioning another news server
which will be hosted at a data centre (with a 45mb/s redundant
connection). The new server, unfortunately, will not be available for
another 2-3 weeks.