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A few days ago, I mentioned that there might be some some "brief periods of 
time" when the NavList message boards and archives at fer3.com/arc might be 
inaccessible. That referred to some code editing that I was doing, and it was 
over and done with in less than an hour --no actual outages. But as luck 
would have it, Friday night the servers where these accounts are hosted were 
subjected to a rather severe "denial of service" attack (this is where a 
server is inundated with a huge number of spurious requests for web pages and 
other data in a 'vandalous' manner, and it can no longer fulfill real 
requests for data). If you attempted to view any pages during this time, you 
may have discovered that the site simply did not respond (as I did). I 
wouldn't normally bring this up, but the unfortunate truth is that these 
things often come in waves so it might happen again in the next couple of 
days. The outage Friday night lasted about four hours, and that has been 
typical in other cases for these servers.

For those of you with technical/computing interests, you can read about the 
most recent D.O.S. attack here: 
http://community.discountasp.net/forumdisplay.php?f=34
and if you are unable to connect to fer3.com/arc at some point later this 
week, you can at least satisfy your curiosity by checking the "status page" 
for the servers here:
http://216.128.30.225/index.html
Write it down! ;-)

-FER



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