Va-Hist Subscribers:

Some time on Friday morning, 11 April 2008, a routing instruction for
the server that receives and delivers Va-Hist messages went on the blink
or was wrongly programmed. The result is that all messages to the list
from subscribers have automatically been rejected as if faulty.
Including mine.

This did not happen because of anything that anybody in the Library of
Virginia did, and it is not anything that anybody at the Library of
Virginia can control or amend.

All of the computers of the Commonwealth of Virginia, including those in
the Library of Virginia, are operated and maintained by the Virginia
Information Technologies Agency under contract with the state.

It is part of the "privatizing" (a hateful word) (a hateful public
policy) of the procurement and operations of all of the computer systems
for all of the state agencies.

Please listen closely to this:

THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT WE CAN DO AT THE LIBRARY OF VIRGINIA
ABOUT THIS DISRUPTION AND INTERRUPTION OF AN ONLINE SERVICE WE ARE PROUD
TO PROVIDE WHEN WE CAN.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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Please visit the Library of Virginia's Web site at
http://www.lva.virginia.gov

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