🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <clinCuo85I.6JM@netcom.com>, Jeff Lin <clin@netcom.com> wrote:
>I've been trying to telnet to calpoly.edu sites for 2 days but keep getting
>hostname look up failure, or host unreachable.
>Is the connection to Cal Poly down because of the San Luis Obispo fire? I
>didn't think the fire was anywhere near Cal Poly. Any infos?
>I don't know where to post this message. I'm getting desperate.

It really shouldn't be necessary to say the following, but I guess I'll have
to.

A fire is a large emergency, especially in the extremely dry conditions that
prevail this time of year in Southern California.  In order to fight a fire,
many logistical activities must take place that strain communications systems.

Any nonessential drain on these communications systems has a high probability
of causing losses to life and property.

As miniscule as telnet bandwidth is, it's still a drain on the total bandwidth
available to the fire area.  Please, everyone - STAY OFF systems in the SLO
area via telnet, gopher, WWW, ftp or whatever, and let the firemen and other
emergency workers have the bandwidth for really important things.
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