Wed Oct 28 14:33:35 PST 1998 — PacBell has had some trouble on our current Geyserville number, and Cloverdale customers are being affected. Per our previous note on October 19th, Cloverdale customers should transition to our new facilities ASAP. The old number is offline right now, but will be back in service in a few hours. Sorry for any confusion! -Dane

Mon Oct 19 21:27:24 PDT 1998 — The number which our Cloverdale customers are using is changing. Users need to adjust their settings for this new number soon, as the old number will be going offline in two weeks. The new number is 707-893-0174. As Sonic is not responsible for toll calls, you should call your operator to make sure that this number is local for you before using it. The new number offers v.34, ISDN, K56Flex and v.90 support. -Dane, Brian and Scott

Wed Oct 14 15:32:27 PDT 1998 — The Usenet news server crashed on Tuesday night at about 7:30pm, and was back online within about 15 minutes. Hoever, disk corruption from the crash meant we had to take the system offline between midnight and 2am for filesystem repair. Sorry for the interruption! -Dane

Tue Sep 22 17:29:36 PDT 1998 — South Bay & San Rafael POPs have undergone firmware upgrades to allow v.90 connectivity. -Brian

Mon Sep 21 15:49:14 PDT 1998 — v.90 customers: Please use 522-1003, the use of 522-1389 is depreciated and may result is busy signals. -Brian

Sun Sep 20 20:52:56 PDT 1998 — RBL back up. The Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) was down for about 9 hours, so you may notice more spam in your mailbox than usual. The problem: the RBL server failed; that service has been reimplemented on a new server. For more information about the RBL and MAPS, please visit: maps.vix.com/ -Scott

Sun Sep 20 14:50:54 PDT 1998 — RBL currently down. The Realtime Blackhole List (RBL) has been down for three hours — and already, we’ve seen a tremendous increase in the amount of spam delivered to our network. Currently, we are investigating the use of MAPS to provide fallback capability in the event that the RBL fails. We may be able to get MAPS online for this situation. For more information about the RBL and MAPS, please visit: maps.vix.com/ -Scott

Fri Sep 11 12:03:48 PDT 1998 — Because of the projected traffic load expected from Starr Report downloads, we have mirrored both the Starr Report, as well as a a preliminary rebuttal from the White House, locally: starr.sonic.net These documents were retrieved from CNN.com a few minutes ago. PLEASE NOTICE: Reports indicate that these documents contain adult material — ‘parental guidance is suggested.’ -Scott

Thu Aug 27 01:31:37 PDT 1998 — Starting sometime just before midnight, a criminal launched a ‘denial of service’ attack against our network. Service has now been restored; UUNet is continuing their investigation. -Scott

Thu Aug 27 00:47:53 PDT 1998 — Our network has been under attack for over an hour now. Work to track down the perpetrators and restore service continues… -Scott