On Sat, 6 May 12:55 -0400, Paul Divirgilio <[log in to unmask]>, >My mail seems to have stopped as of early this morning from sites around the >world. Is there some major outage? Usually, this means that it will come in >an overwhelming flood suddenly, but yu never know. I believe that I remember >seeing a previous note about strange silences on the net. -- Paul. That strange silence is probably attributable to the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of V-E (Victory in Europe), plus, to a minor extent, good weather, which reminds people that there's life beyond their keyboards. Of course, you can check the various "outage" mailing-lists on BITNET, for announcements of scheduled outages. This weekend is the first weekend after the official end of my university's winter-session, which also marks an end to the "freeze" on the computer's configuration, which is mandated upon us by the administration. So, a "window" to making changes has briefly opened.