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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 13:42:22 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin web site down?
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In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010330121103.01619540@pop.ma.ultranet.com>; from lhall@rfk.com on Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:11:46PM -0500

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:11:46PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 11:01 AM 3/30/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>I wonder if people send email to their ISPs when their internet connection
>>goes down, too.
>
>Yes and its infuriating when they don't reply until after the connection is 
>fixed too!;-)

We have a major snow storm here right now and it's knocked out the phones.
The infuriating thing about this is that the phone company refuses to even
do me the courtesy of providing me with a dialtone to report the problem.

I know that my car is out of gas, so I decided this would be a good time
to get some gas since the phone company wouldn't help me.  The Detroit automakers
strike again, though!  The car just sits there.  For a while the starter worked
but then even that stopped.

My neighbor came over with a can of gasoline (do I have to rely on neighbors to
fuel my car now???) but even after he put the gasoline in the car, there were
*still* problems.  I know that I now need a new battery but how am I supposed
to *buy* a battery if I can't get to the store because the car won't start?

They really have you coming and going.

I have to stop typing now.  My carpal tunnel is acting up.  I was going to send
my doctor some email about this but

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