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From: Andrew Wood
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 00:00

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In article <823682985snz@mbha.demon.co.uk> sv@mbha.demon.co.uk "sv" writes:

> 
> Here's a tip. I could not log in yesterday. About 30 times!. Well, actually it 
> would log in then freeze or hang up. Drove me mad.
> 
> I thought I had broken Oasis so I reinstalled. I thought I had bad sectors which
> were crashing the machine when it tried to write to them. I went fairly frantic.
> Bloody demon I thought. Bugger 'em.
> 
> I had a power cut a few days ago when on line, and it scrambled the system date
> to some nonsense value, and it was this which caused the problem.
> 
> Fixed the date, fixed the problem :-\

If that was Tuesday morning about 9.30 - 11-ish, that was when Demon
was having problems with the login routines - finger status@gate.demon.co.uk
for the details.

It probably *wasn't* you - after all, this is Demon we're talking about !

Andy 

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