A rare and isolated event

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

Our regularly scheduled NANOG provider problem was right on time
again this meeting.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010522/tc/instant_messenger_outage_1.html
 "The problems were fixed by early afternoon. Graham said one Internet
  provider under contract with AOL had connection trouble. The company
  uses several outside companies to let users connect with computers
  that run Instant Messenger and other services.

  The outage, which Graham termed ``a rare and isolated event,'' "