Thu Aug 21 23:05:39 PDT 2003 — Altnews service unavailable. The company that provides the news service reachable as altnews.sonic.net has been down and unavailable all day today. They had a planned outage to move some equipment and apparently ran into problems. The current status message says they expect to be back by 2 am Friday PDT. -John
Update: We got our last error message from Altnews at 9:21 am PDT, Friday, Aug. 22. Their server appears to be up and responding now. -John