I thought some of you might like this story. I have been having problems with logging on to my server lately, and have been forced to actually show up at the university just to read my mail. (Yes, you can actually take 12 hours and never have to go to the school. Aren't computers lovely?) We have limited access times for mail-n-stuff, and you have to spar with undergrads who want to play Doom or download girlie pictures, so I haven't had a lot of opportunuity to respond to a lot of mail. Sorry; the problems started when they added a third server, and increased the number of modem accesses. Since then, I lose my slip in the middle of a session (boy, I love that!), my password is rejected, mail is lost or rejected, and often the system just freezes for no apparent reason, and forces my mac to commit digital suicide. In the meantime, my mailbox gets stuffed with more stuff than I can respond to in any reasonable amount of time. Well, I got quite frustrated this weekend when I couldn't upload a chapter of my disseration to my chairman, and later when I tried to upload something to Mary at Modern Ferret and failed at both. So this morning, I got on the horn and spoke pointedly (but not harshly) to the people-in charge of the whole mess. They listened, and admited they were having problems. The guy actually said, "We are not sure what's going on. Its like twenty ferrets have been running amuck in the system..." I said I understood, and wished him luck. Bob and the 13 Telecommunication Terrors [Posted in FML issue 1491]