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,'' "