Ok, I KNOW I'm reading too much into this but this is too much of a coincidence.

CNN article on new software http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9901/21/faa.radar/

NW traffic shutdown post on this forum http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=000OJp

-- Lisa (lisab@shallc.com), January 21, 1999

Answers

It looks like the explaination for what happened to me...

-- Reporter (foo@foo.bar), January 21, 1999.

Oooga! Uh ... uh ... uh ... duh ... duh ... dunno ... ?? Uh, uh, uh, keeps happening ... uh, FAA always lies ... duh uh duh uh OH !!! It's the new govt fad! Popularity trend. Lying good, opinion polls go up, Lies R Us new oath of office! Oafs of official govt.

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-- Leska (allaha@earthlink.net), January 22, 1999.