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James R Grinter writes:
>In article <4j8vg4$sr9@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> jdr1002@thor.cam.ac.uk (John Robinson) writes:
>> JANet (or at least parts of it) has had news feed problems this week,
>> coinciding with the installation/configuration of a new 8Mbit/sec
>> transatlantic link from BT, and its subsequent failure. Configurations
>
>Close. The new JANET link is managed and provided by Sprint.

Oh. I have a vague memory of a discussion going on as to WHY they went
and used BT, though. Never mind, just a false memory I suppose.

>JANET's news is provided by PSI UK.

Which of course has been the other source of problems in the last
couple of weeks: well, PSI UK haven't been at fault, I don't think,
but too many Unis were a bit slow reconfiguring their newsservers to
point to PSI UK instead of EUnet, and when they did, the sudden influx
of news brought their newsservers down to their knees (no names).

It's nice having a friendly newsmaster here who sort-of discusses
things, though I'm sure I'm misunderstanding half of what he says.

John.
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