Taking the liberty, dmargalotti:
The sudden drop off in contributions is partially attributable to the sudden failure of wgnet's Internet gateway node "george" last weekend, causing me to reroute all the University's Internet traffic onto p-w-03's already-overloaded gateway node "paul", but be assured we're trying to get things back to "normal".
[size=8pt]First the hard drive/RAID controller in that old Z-10 box croaked, then the CPU board overheated and self-destructed (faulty power supply, I think.) Nothing like a service outage to remind one of just how "reliable" present-day IBM equipment really is. I'm surprised I was able to get on just now...
@D^J~
"Friends and Family" was actually an MCI thing, not AT&T. AT&T might have had something like it at some point but it's not the one you're thinking of.