Internet Cleaning
DO NOT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET FROM MARCH 31st
23:59 pm (GMT) UNTIL 12:01am (GMT) APRIL 2nd.
*** Attention
***
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.
In order to protect your
valuable data from deletion we ask that you do the following:
1.
Disconnect all terminals and local area
networks from their
Internet connections.
2. Shut down all Internet servers,
or
disconnect them from the Internet.
3. Disconnect all
disks and hardrives from
any connections to the
Internet.
4. Refrain from connecting any computer to
the
Internet in any way.
We understand the inconvenience that this may
cause some Internet users, and we apologize. However, we are certain that any
inconveniences will be more than made up for by the increased speed and
efficiency of the Internet, once it has been cleared of electronic flotsam
and jetsam.
We thank you for your cooperation.
Interconnected
Network Maintenance Staff
Main Branch, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Sysops and others:
Since the last Internet cleaning, the
number of Internet users has grown dramatically. Please assist us in
alerting the public of the upcoming Internet cleaning by posting this message
where your users will be able to read it.
Please pass this message on
to other sysops and Internet users as well.
Thank you.
Al Gore
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