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The following is the status of the news system at 13:00 today 25th.
March 1996.

The new news machines suffered one minor hardware (memory fault)
problem over the weekend which has been rectified. We are still on
course for changing over the news service later today.

If everything continues to go to plan, the following will happen:

The changes needed to the DNS for the replacement machines will be
included in this afternoon's DNS build.
 
The servers will be changed over shortly prior to 18:00 tonight. There
may be a short period when no news is available whilst this is carried
out.

If your software collects news using article numbers (e.g. (Free)
Agent) no changes will be needed. If however your software collects
news using the NEWNEWS process (e.g. KA9Q, Turnpike) then in order not
to miss any news, it will be necessary to make an adjustment. If you
are happy to miss a few articles, then you do not need to make any
changes.

The information needed to change the 'last date' information in news
collection programmes is currently being prepared. It will be released
during this afternoon. It is currently proposed that this date be
reset to 12:00 on Friday 22nd. March to ensure no news is lost. This
may result in duplicate news being collected if your expiry period or
history is less than 3 days. Should you choose to make these changes,
you will be offered all of the articles that have arrived since Friday
Noon. Many of these will be duplicates you have seen and your software
will not bother to fetch them. We would recommend that if you know how
to stop your software expiring your newsbase, you should do so until
after you have caught up.

A further announcement confirming the above details will be made later
today.

Malcolm Muir
Demon Internet

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England