At 07:23 AM 8/24/2003 -0700, Mark Panitz wrote: >well see this server is hosted by city of new York university which must >be in New York -and wasn't there a blackout of electricy in that same >area? it could have been the blackout in that area and it takes time for >computer to reboot ,etc thats was probably one of the problems The Great Blackout of 2003 was a week before Dennis noticed the lack of traffic. listserv.cuny.edu had been running fine for several days between the blackout and the list pause. Whatever the problem was, it's hard to imagine how it could have been caused by a blackout a week earlier. Just a thought, Nick