Some Troubles With Telecom Digest

On Sunday, Monday and part of Tuesday, there were some difficulties with the Telecom Digest re-director.

John Levine, a friend of many years of the Digest has since the start of the web back in 1994 served as 'webmaster' and been in charge of re-directing calls to the URL '

'. One of his computers receives all incoming calls to the Digest web site, and points, or re-directs those calls to our REAL home, which is at . John said the computer which does that job (not only for me, but apparently other web sites as well) crashed, went dead, and refused to answer any calls. I found out about this Sunday night, and notified John in email. The answer I got from John was that he is in Quebec all this week, but he wold get someone else to reboot the computer. Nothing happened all day Monday, but I was busy with some other work and did not notice it until late Monday night. I sent him a reminder request, and he responded early Tuesday saying the computer was apparently dead.

Again, I spent all day Tuesday doing flood relief work here in Independence and did not worry about the Digest. Now I get home this evening and note that the re-director is again working as it should. A note from John indicated that:

if you get this message then my band-aids worked.

So indeed, it seems they did work. *Thank you, John.* So as just a reminder to all of you, the _preferred_ address to reach the Digest is

but in the event that address draws a blank (as in cannot find the page; or address does not resolve or some similar kind of stalling, then feel free to use the alternate address (and my real home) which is is a 'direct address' at MIT to reach me. All that happens with (or .com or .net) is that you are transparently re-routed over to massis.lcs.mit.edu and the telecom-archives directory therein. Please make a note of this in the event you get stalled again for some reason. Right now, the outbound mailing list is not working correctly. Thanks.

PAT