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Subject: INTERNET CLEANUP
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2001 4:51PM
please redistribute this important information to everyone likely
to be impacted by this event.
* 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 12:01 a.m.
GMT on Feb. 29 until 12:01 a.m. GMT on March 1.
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.
Kim Dereksen 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.
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