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John, I would assume that anything posted to MSUNAG is fair game for redistribution to your faculty/staff as you see fit. I would also hope that your dean/director/chair would forward such messages on to faculty/staff, but I know that's too much to hope for in many units. Doug On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:35:11PM -0400, John Resotko wrote: > Do we have permission to forward this to concerned faculty and staff? > > /John Resotko > > >>> Tom Davis <[log in to unmask]> 8/21/2007 12:38 PM >>> > FYI. I just sent the following message to the Deans, Directors and > Chairs list. /Tom > > >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:22:12 -0400 > >From: Tom Davis <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: Recent Internet Outages > >To: [log in to unmask] > > > >Beginning late Wednesday, August 15, network users started reporting > >difficulty with Internet access: on-campus users were unable to > >consistently reach the Internet and, similarly, off-campus users were > >unable to consistently reach the campus network. Intermittent > outages > >persisted throughout the day Thursday and into Friday, at which point > >the network stabilized. Another brief outage occurred this morning. > > > >Since the incident began, ACNS staff have been in in close contact > with > >MSU's Internet service provider, Merit Network, Inc. Merit now > believes > >they have positively identified the source of these outages (which > also > >affected other Merit customers). ACNS will continue to monitor the > >situation carefully and pursue an full understanding of these > outages. > > > >We understand that Internet access is vital to the MSU community and > are > >treating this situation as extremely serious. > > > >As always, current and historical information about service outages > is > >available at http://servicestatus.msu.edu If you are unable to > reach > >this website, or if you have other questions, please call the ACNS > Help > >Desk at 517-432-6200. > > > >Tom Davis, Director > >Academic Computing and Network Services -- Doug Nelson, Network Manager | [log in to unmask] Academic Computing and Network Services | Ph: (517) 353-2980 Michigan State University | http://www.msu.edu/~nelson/