From: Duane Palmer <duane@cac.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Can you tell me what's happening?
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 92 21:48:33 -0800


Please note the following message that was sent out by
Steve Jones.  That should explain your problem.


    .....Duane Palmer.....C&C Consulting.....543-0794.....




> From: Steven Noyd Jones <noyd@cac.washington.edu>
> Sender: noyd@milton.u.washington.edu
> Subject: 02/12 Unix: News moved.
> To: change-l@uwavm.u.washington.edu
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 92 5:50:59 PST
> Cc: consult@u.washington.edu (Consulting), cops-l@uwavm.u.washington.edu

> The newsreaders on milton are being reinstalled as remote newsreaders
> this morning. "rn" was changed at about 5am, "nn" will be changed as
> soon as it's database rebuilds - about 8am.  Also at 8am, the domain
> name "news.u.washington.edu" will be changed to point to shelley
> instead of milton. That will cause the remote readers on
> max,austen,hardy,byron and hopefully most everyone currently remotely
> reading from milton to be switched to reading from shelley.

> It's inevitable that there will be some people who are using remote
> readers who haven't switched to using the the "news.u.washington.edu"
> name instead of "milton".  Regardless, the news files will be removed
> from milton on Thursday or Friday so we can return the disk that's
> been borrowed from Sequent.  This means that there will be calls and
> E-mail from people who don't know why milton is refusing to let them
> read news.  They must be told to have their newsreader reconfigured
> to connect to "news.u.washington.edu".  For newsreaders on PC's they
> can get assistance from the appropriate consulting person - perhaps
> Mike Glass or Mark McNair depending on the package.  For "rn" or
> "nn", the NNTPSERVER environment variable can be set.  For "gnus", I
> have no idea who might be able to help, but it's likely to be a
> problem for someone.

> -Steve Jones
>   University Computing Services JE-30,  University of Washington
>   E-mail:  noyd@cac.washington.edu    Phone:  (206) 543-5852
>

> Date: Sat, 15 Feb 92 21:09:03 -0800
> From: Human Int. Technology Lab <hlab@u.washington.edu>
> Sender: hlab@milton.u.washington.edu
> To: help@cac.washington.edu
> Subject: Can you tell me what's happening?

> Why can't I connect to milton?  I've been getting this
> response on both of my accounts since mid-day...

> [9:07pm /u7/hlab] milton 31 % rn sci.virtual-worlds
>
> connection to 128.95.136.1: Connection refused
> giving up...
> Couldn't connect to milton news server, try again later.


> Help me folks, I have to get the newsgroup fixed!

> Bob