From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY, TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,18bcdad971d6f9df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-24 07:06:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <5ee5b646.0110232051.1acc370@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: gtkada.eu.org Vanished?? Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 10:05:40 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:05:40 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15124 Date: 2001-10-24T14:05:40+00:00 List-Id: In article <5ee5b646.0110232051.1acc370@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar says... > >Ted Dennison wrote in message news:... >> I can't get there either. All of act-europe.fr seems to be down too, and has >> been for about a week now. One has to wonder if something a bit more than a >> simple network glitch isn't going on... > >T.E.D. master CLA conspiracy theorist at work :-) :-) Well...OK. Guilty as charged. :-) >Anyway, the explanation is simple, the ISP suddenly cut >off ACT Europe without warning two weeks ahead of schedule, >and the folks over there are scrambling to get the new >ISP in place. Having recently gone through similar troubles (both at home and at work), I can say that completely explains it for me. Its a damn shame it had to happen in a week where several references to software hosted there came up. Hmmm...Perhaps I should move on to a new conspiracy theory? ;-) Yes...I can see it now. Stroustrup in a black catsuit, wielding a large pair of bolt-cutters, sneaking into ACT Europe's ISP in the dead of night. Then again, perhaps he did all the sabotage to them he needed to do, just by developing C++ in the first place. :-) --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.