HW: Newnet IRC

[Arin Komins]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, William Duffy wrote:

:Subject: Re: HW: Newnet IRC
:
:I believe there are some problems with the internet worldwide at the moment,
:which is either slowing things down, or cutting some places off completely.
:This might explain why so many chat rooms & forums are empty or out of
:action?
:

The internet outages were due to the Slapper/Sapphire MS SQL worm that hit
late Friday evening.  I'd think that most folks should have patched up
their systems by now....

Arin
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