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From: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: cogent will be down + a suggestion
Message-ID: <117@cogent.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Dec-86 23:25:52 EST
Article-I.D.: cogent.117
Posted: Sun Dec 21 23:25:52 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Dec-86 05:39:53 EST
Reply-To: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
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Organization: Cogent Software Solutions, Stockton, CA
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The system ``cogent'' will be down for a few days while our HP 550 (slow
turtle) is replaced with an HP 840 (fast fast fast!).  We will be out of
touch (but aren't we anyway?) during that time.  If we anticipate being
down for longer than we like, I'll try to arrange to be up just long enough
to get my mail/news and relieve the folks who feed us (thanks to you all,
by the way!).  People sending mail, please be patient if you don't hear
from us, wait a while before re-writing.

I hope this is the right group to post this to.  If not, can someone
please get word to the correct newsgroup (we'll be down, otherwise we
would do it ourselves). thanks.

Oh, one other thing.  I notice that the one year anniversary of the
Challenger tragedy is coming up.  It was quite an event to me, I would
think many people on the net would feel the same.  What are the
possibilities of the net doing something like a day of ``uucp silence''
in memorial (e.g. halting uucp transfers for one day).  This could be a
way for us all to ``wave our flags at half mast'' in a sense.  If this is
difficult then perhaps something else of a similar type?  Does anyone
have suggestions?  I may do it myself voluntarily.  How many others are
interested?  Perhaps a subset of the net could do it on a voluntary basis.
Well???  You folks talk about it while we are down and I'll check back
with you all after we're on-line again.

See y'all in a week.
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|     Mark Steven Jeghers         ECHOMPGULP - process has eaten it          |
| cryptography, terrorist, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO |
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|     {ihnp4,cbosgd,lll-lcc,lll-crg}|{dual,ptsfa}!cogent!mark                |
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| Cogent Software Solutions can not be held responsible for anything said    |
| by the above person since they have no control over him in the first place |
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