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From: lake@alberta.UUCP (Robert Lake)
Newsgroups: net.news.config
Subject: alberta grounded
Message-ID: <121@alberta.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 11:25:58 EST
Article-I.D.: alberta.121
Posted: Thu Mar  1 11:25:58 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 01:43:22 EST
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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A dispute between Edmonton Telephones and Alberta Government Telephones
over Long Distance revenues has resulted in all outgoing long distance
calls to require operator intervention.  This has severely affected our
link to ubc-vision, and until a settlement occurs, ubc-vision will be
polling us on demand for mail only.  We plan to resume normal news and
mail services to ubc-vision once the dispute ends, and an announcement
shall be made at that time (but don't expect it in the near future, as
both sides are presently engaged in a prolonged war of nerves).

				Robert Lake (alberta!lake)
				University of Alberta