Just as with Harvey and the eclipse, the incoming Hurricane Irma will cause lots of trouble in the Caribbean, in some part of Florida, and possibly further up the coast, depending on the final track of the storm. Since this is prone to cause the noise floor on the mailing list to rise, and since some significant fraction of our subscribers send the list to their cellphones, or a mailbox which alerts there, let's again be even more careful than usual to evaluate what we're posting. Keep your reports here to DOWN, UP and MEETOO for physical circuits direct to and between carriers, and forwards of outage notices from upstreams, as much as possible. Use the -discussion list for everything else. We don't know where it's going yet, but we're pretty sure someone's gonna take it in the metaphorical nuts. Let's be careful out there... Cheers, -- jra Co-Moderator, Outages* -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274