This is (hopefully) a "once in ten years" event, happening today, from 17--19 CET (= 16--18 UTC = 11--13 US Eastern == 8--10 US Pacific Time) The main `vault' (security, air condition,..) where our mail server hypatia is located will undergo a major `network re-connection' event that will affect a considerable part of ETH -- including all the mailing lists @stat.math.ethz.ch. For you, it should only look as one very long mail delay (i.e. no message bouncing should occur AFAIK). Apart from that, I hope many of you have found that the mail delays, particularly on R-help, have become considerably smaller thanks to the new hardware (and software to less extent) the mail server is running on. Regards, 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 <><