I rely on e-mail. The Telecommunications office received numerous calls from confused students wanting to know what caused the failure. Timothy Farnham, chief information officer for Computing and Technology, believes this most recent failure could be related to the power outages that have been plaguing Berry this year. Mike Mathis, electrical supervisor of the physical plant, is working to solve the electrical problem that is causing the voice mail system failures. The voice mail system was originally installed for administrative use, but two years ago Berry made the service available to the residence halls.
Plans are in the making to upgrade the voice mail system.
Berry has approved a new voice mail server for its budget that is 2000 compliant. This will eliminate current problems with the voice mail service. This article was originally published in Vol. 90, Issue No. 4, September 17, 1998.