For heaven's sake. I don't know why this stuff always has to happen: why is Murphy always right? So I've been trying to hack together a new release of GNU make and the FSF's systems have been whacked all weekend: the mail server (mail.gnu.org) is completely incommunicado; I can't SSH to the server or FTP to the alpha FTP server; my CVS connections only work sporadically, etc. etc. I can't even get mail to anyone there because it all needs to go through systems that are broken. Ugh!
Still, I managed to get a decent amount done; I just can't finish up the details. Very annoying.