10-03-2006 20:59
They DID give a message in game:

From: Mick Linden @ 20:39


Hi folks, logins have been restricted to Linden-only whilst we deal with a current grid issue. We expect to reopen logins shortly, thanks for your patience :)


So seriously, stop complaining about no warnings and start complaining about it being too easy to create new alts to do this sort of thing.
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