unbelievable but true... all the lists hosted here. It even needed a reboot of the hypatia server that had run straight since end of February.. We'll try to find out tomorrow how this could have happened. Yours, unhappily Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <><