🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <9ugn2g$1mlo$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>,
Malcolm Hoar <malch@malch.com> wrote:
>In article <9ugeos$1mc7$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>, pwinter@best.com (Patty Winter) wrote:
>>This is weird--when I try to telnet to my new Verio account
>>this morning, the connection keeps aborting before I get the
>>login prompt. 
>
>I've seen something similar off and on. Based on this and
>some other observations/problems, I reckon they have some
>complex authentication schemes which just are not solid
>yet.

I finally had time to call support, and it turns out that
some user who's on the same server as I am had accidentally 
set an autoresponder in a loop over the weekend. The tech
support guy I talked to said he'd heard there might have
been an accumulation of as many as hundreds of thousands
of messages. Anyway, they're still cleaning things up and
had to reboot some services on that server. Evidently telnet
isn't back up yet, but should be in the next hour or two.

Bet they were thrilled when they got to work and discovered
that this morning. :-)

BTW, I'm currently logged onto shell5 via AT&T Broadband
Internet. I noticed a couple of hours ago that my cable
modem had found a network again, so I changed my TCP/IP
settings, and all seems well. That sure went better (and
faster) than I had expected.


Patty