timely Internet news

[P. Michael McCulley]

On 16 Jan 98 at 9:27,  Katherine Kendall (Katherine Kendall 
<kk at harborcom.net>) wrote about timely Internet 
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> Date:          Fri, 16 Jan 1998 09:27:18 -0800
> Reply-to:      kk at harborcom.net
> From:          Katherine Kendall <kk at harborcom.net>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
> Subject:       timely Internet news

> Dear Web4libbers,
> 	Friday morning 16th I was doing a demonstration of search
> engines to media specialists from the local schools.  I couldn't
> get into a single one!  My director was having a terrible time
> sending email.  We decided the Internet was greying out somewhere.
> 
> Is there a site that gives up-to-date traffic reports on the Internet?
> We managed to work around it, and of course all the commercial sites
> like Netscape popped right up.  It might be a useful service for some
> enterprising commercial site to provide. Regional crashes (weather,
> backhoes, overloads), national and international tie-ups, etc, sort of
> like an Internet weather report. 
> 
> Kathy Kendall
> mailto:kk at harborcom.net
> 

Kathy,
The weather reports are interesting.. and sometimes helpful.. for a 
local perspective, if you have the system and setup to run it, 
VitalSigns offers NetMedic, at
http://www.vitalsigns.com/
which gives Net traffic from your local perspective (connection)

Best.
Michael McCulley
mcculley at best.com
http://www.best.com/~mcculley