Announcement: Hardware upgrade of whois server

Sorry for any duplication
>  Dear colleagues,
> 
>   After experiencing performance slow-down on our whois service, we
> decided
>  to upgrade the hardware of our primary whois server.
> 
>   The upgrade will take place on 9 March, 2001, Friday. It will start at
>  8:00am CET and planned to last approximately 2 hours. 

Just a quick quaestion, Why Friday and why during working hours? All our
maint slots have to be out of hours and not preceding a weekend.

Curious



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