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From: Net Administrator for Transceiver Windsong at
Debley Down

Subject: Complaints about Relay, a suggestion

Summary: It's getting worse; try us instead

Key phrases: communications problems, Relay
unreliability, Transcend

Distribution: Communication Costs Special Interest
Group, Motley Hatch Administration Group, Transceiver
Relay01 at Relay, Transceiver Not-for-Long at Shortstop,

Follow-ups to: Windsong Expansion Interest Group

Date: 07:21:21 Docks Time, 36/09 of Org year 52089

Text of message:

During the last five hundred hours, Comm Costs shows
9,834 transceiver-layer congestion complaints against
the Vrinimi operation at Relay. Each of these complaints
involves services to tens of thousand of planets.
Vrinimi has promised again and again that the congestion
is a purely temporary increase of Transcendent usage.

As Relay's chief competitor in this region, we of
Windsong have benefited modestly from the overflow;
however, until now we thought it inappropriate to
propose a coordinated response to the problem.

The events of the last seven hours compel us to change
this policy. Those reading this item already know about
the incident; most of you are the victims of it.
Beginning at [00:00:27 Docks Time], Vrinimi Org began
taking transceivers off-line, an unscheduled outage. R01
went out at 00:00:27, R02 at 02:50:32, R03 and R04 at
03:12:01. Vrinimi stated that a Transcendent customer
was urgently requesting bandwidth. (R00 had been
previously dedicated to that Power's use.) The customer
required use of both up- and down-link bandwidth. By the
Org's own admission, the unscheduled usage exceeded
sixty percent of their entire capacity. Note that the
excesses of the preceding five hundred hours--excesses
which caused entirely justified complaint--were never