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Re: watch files failing due to usa government shutdown



On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 07:17:22PM +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> Remarkable.  The usa government shutdown now leads to closing websites and
> failing watch files.
> 
> The watch file :
> 
>   |  version=3
>   |  opts=uversionmangle=s/^(\d)(\d)(\d)$/$1.$2.$3/ \
>   |  http://math.nist.gov/tnt/download.html (?:.*/|)jama(\d[^o]*)\.(?:tgz|tbz2|txz|tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz)|zip)
> 
> The uscan result :
> 
>   |  uscan warning: In watchfiles/libjama_1.2.4-2.watch,
>   |    no matching hrefs for watch line
>   |    http://math.nist.gov/tnt/download.html (?:.*/|)jama(\d[^o]*)\.(?:tgz|tbz2|txz|tar\.(?:gz|bz2|xz)|zip)
> 
> The website states :
> 
>   |  NIST Closed, NIST and Affiliated Web Sites Not Available
>   |  
>   |  Due to a lapse in government funding, the National Institute of Standards and
>   |  Technology (NIST) is closed and most NIST and affiliated web sites are
>   |  unavailable until further notice. We sincerely regret the inconvenience.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bart Martens

Not just this - but tons of OpenGov data is also unreachable; nuts!


Thanks for the pointers!


Cheers,
  Paul


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