On 16/07/00 10:12 -0700, Ravikant K. Rao spewed into the LI bitstream:
8< impassioned rant about newbies
>sdf.lonestar.org,hobbiton.org,zippy.shellyeah.org,m-net.arbornet.org [Yes,
>I know M-NET is down right now],freenet.nether.net ...
1. M-Net is not down now - it's back up as of monday - and faster than
ever. Upgraded to FreeBSD 4.0, sendmail 8.12 etc. The reason they were
down for so long is that m-net was hacked and they had to rebuild
everything from scratch.
2. htdig.org - ht://dig. One of the best search tools you'll get for *nix
(or linux for that matter). So it is not _all_ that offtopic :)
That doesn't make it any less silly as a question however. If a site is
down commonsense says - wait for a while / disconnect and reconnect to the
net and try again. It doesn't say 'post to LI' - even if
http://www.linux.org is down for a while :)
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