Miami University's DEC OpenVMS system in Oxford (MiaVX1) will be
unavailable tomorrow, Saturday, 1 April 1995, from 6am until 12 noon,
for installation of additional hardware (disk drives) by MCIS Technical
Services.
 
     All services hosted on MiaVX1 will be unavailable during this
period, including:
 
     *  any and all applications normally used on MiaVX1
 
        Mail, News, etc.
 
     *  BITNET mail, interactive messages and "send file" capability
 
        MiaVX1 serves as Miami University's entry and departure point
        for all BITNET services, which will thus be unavailable.
        Incoming mail and files will be queued at the remote site and
        will be delivered after MiaVX1 returns to service.
 
     *  Many (if not most) of Miami University World Wide Web (WWW)
        server data
 
        This includes individual as well as organizational "home pages"
        served from MiaVX1.  All Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)
        pointing to http://MiaVX1.MUOhio.Edu/ or http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/
        will be inaccessible.
 
     *  Miami University's NetNews server
 
        In addition to NetNews on MiaVX1 itself, any NetNews clients
        served by the campus NetNews server (NNTP.MUOhio.Edu) will be
        unable to access NetNews.  This includes users of the DEC
        OpenVMS systems in Hamilton (MiaVX2 et al.) and Middletown
        (MiaVX3 et al.).
 
     *  VAXshare services to networked Macintosh computers
 
     *  Miami University's Help Desk server
 
        The Target tracking system for MCIS Help Desk problems will be
        unavailable.
 
     MCIS regrets any inconvenience this necessary service outage may
cause.
 
                                  [John Harlan, MCIS Client Services]
 
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