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To: V. who wrote (340)	10/19/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Respond to of 395

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To: V. who wrote (340)	10/19/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 395

it wasn't #6 we like to hold press conferences to take credit for such events :) mark

To: V. who wrote (340)	10/19/1999 1:55:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 395

LOL..thats funny. Hope you don't get suspended..

To: V. who wrote (340)	10/19/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: BryanB	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 395

From: BryanB - Humble and hardworking managing director of Silicon Investor. To: V., TLC, Cheeky, Razorbak, Jon K. and the rest of you who are having a bit of fun at my expense. :) RE: Outages in the grand scheme of things. ---------------------------------------------------------- Well, well, well, well, well, well, well... First of all, let me express my sincere gratitude to V. for offering such a plethora of plausible explanations/reponses. Unfortunately, V. forgot a few.... A. I took it down on purpose, and I'll do it again if I have to. No sudden moves...I'm not afraid to use this thing. Don't push me, man! B. Oliver North did it! C. We occasionally feel sorry for the competition, so we mimic outages and other glitches to give them a false sense of security. It's only fair. D. Dammit! E. Philosophically speaking, if a tree falls on our Web server, would it actually make the site go down? Was it the tree that went down, or the site, or both? F. Would ya believe....April fools????? G. We were experimenting with a time-travelling Web site that would provide extremely accurate predictive indicators for stocks and mutual funds. (If successful, we would have shared this information with SI members, of course, since we always have your best interest in mind.) In the course of standard load testing, we created a temporary "rip" in the space-time fabric. In laymen's terms, the "down-time" experienced by our members in this dimension actually appeared as "up-time" to a hyper-intelligent race of silicon-based life-forms that exist in a parallel universe. The life-forms were impressed with the quality of discussion on SI. In their words, they expressed it as "The only intelligent life on the World Wide Web." They have contacted us and asked for a volunteer to be abducted and probed. Without hesitation, we volunteered Cheeky Kid as the right man for the job. They indicated that Cheeky is actually one of their operatives, who has assumed a human form in order to study our species. So, we said that TLC has his own spaceship, and they agreed. H. Oops... But seriously folks... We discovered a bug in the way that SI databases archived (i.e. old) messages. In the process of resolving this bug and uploading new code...well...Murphy's law got in the way. (Which is why we do these things on the weekends, by the way.) The good news is that we have a handle on the issue now, and there is every reason to think that this will never happen again. Or, at least not until the aliens bring TLC back. We do appreciate your patience and your patronage. Thanks, Bryan