Tue Jan 13 16:59:08 PST 1998 — Our news server has had a few crashes in the past couple days. With the kernel version we are running on this host, there is a problem which can lead to this type of failure in multiprocessor systems. A new version has been released (2.0.33) and are working on an upgrade. Because of these crashes, and the disk errors which result from them, we are running a bit backlogged on incoming news. This backlog should be cleared shortly. -Dane