On Friday, August 22, 1997 starting at about 4 p.m., all the central
computing systems at Univ. at Albany (including the one in which
this listserv resides) will be powered down because of some major
wiring reconfigurations being carried out here at the University at
Albany.  The outage expected to last until sometime Sunday, August 24.
As a result, none of these systems will be receiving electronic mail
during this period, nor, of course, will they be sending mail out.
Because of the way electronic mail is distributed, no messages
should be lost because of this hiatus, but merely delayed.
 
     In particular, list subscribers, should they post to the list
during this time, may be mystified because their postings are not
being distributed.  Postings occurring during this period will not
be distributed until sometime on Sunday.
 
     Thank you for your patience in this matter.
 
Mary Jo Orzech
Bee-l and Socinsct Listowner