During a perfect moment of peace at Mon, 07 Jul 2003 16:18:16 GMT,
Zdenek Jizba interrupted with:

The server was not down because I continued to receive e-mail

I'd just like to point out that E-Mail and News are quite a bit
different. A news server can be down the tubes but this would not
affect E-Mail or web pages. Look up the differences between smtp, nntp
and http. If you are using different telco's are you using different
ISP's as well.