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From: dave@csri.toronto.edu (Dave Sherman)
Subject: mnetor down indefinitely; mail to/from Toronto in question
Message-ID: <8807262025.AA05636@baldwin.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 88 15:05:23 EDT

I've just been informed by mnetor!lazer that mnetor was fried
in the same lightning storm that got lsuc.  While we've called
service for lsuc, and I hope it will be up soon, Lazer tells me
that mnetor is not under service contract and there is no-one around
to authorize a service call for at least a week.  (There is a
possibility that some other machine will become mnetor, when the
people who make the decisions return.)

This has major implications for the Toronto area, not so much for
news, as mnetor has become a leaf-ish node recently, but for mail.
mnetor!uunet has been a highly reliable connection, and it carries
a lot of mail traffic.  People will have to find alternatives for
the time being at least.  I will ask Rick if he can reroute mail
at uunet which is pending for mnetor!toronto-sites.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
lsuc!dave (when it's up); utcsri!dave (when it's not)
416-947-3466