The technology-dependent Notre Dame community faced a challenge as e-mail was unavailable from Friday afternoon to Saturday morning.

"It's always a bad thing to be off the air for 13 hours, but those things do happen," said Larry Rapagnani, assistant provost for computing.

A hardware failure on the email server caused the problem. The disruption was unrelated to previous Internet problems that were caused by service provided from Ameritech.

"Big computers have hardware failures, just like little computers," said Rapagnani.

Technicians worked through the night to fix the email server. Other technology, such as the Internet and H and I drives were not affected.

"We're hopeful that it won't happen again," said Rapagnani.

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