April Fools!!!!!............................ <VBG> Good one John.............. Jackie In a message dated 3/31/2000 9:47:50 PM Eastern Standard Time, weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: << This just came across on Slashdot... "We've had an important notice, that simply had to be passed on; for those who've seen it before, revel in your old-sk00l style: It's that time again! As many of you know, each year the Internet must be shut down for 24 hours in order to allow us to clean it. The cleaning process, which eliminates dead email and inactive ftp, www and gopher sites, allows for a better-working and faster Internet. This year, the cleaning process will take place from 23:59 pm (GMT) on March 31st until 00:01 am (GMT) on April 2nd. During that 24-hour period, five powerful Internet-crawling robots situated around the world will search the Internet and delete any data that they find. >> ======================================== Avenir Web's Computers Mailing List List Modes, Subscription, and General Info: Go to http://avenir.dhs.org/mailing.html List Archives: http://avenir.dhs.org/archives/ Administrative Contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Get computer help: http://avenir.dhs.org ========================================