All Network Users:

This is to inform you that the disruption to our external GroupWise e-mail continues. The problem is due to the failure of our critical central virus and intrusion protection server that is now being re-built in a technically complex process requiring interaction with multiple outside entities. At this point, we hope to have the problem resolved this evening.

We regret this disruption and appreciate your patience.

ISTB Deputy Director for Infrastructure

I (along with the rest of courthouse employees county-wide) have no outside email, I’d left my cell phone at home due to my mad dash to work this morning, and our desk phones won’t let us call out of LA County except for a few geographically closer cities of Orange County.

I must say, it’s kinda nice. Kinda like a technological Walden’s Pond.