Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"

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From: Mike Blackford
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00

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"E-mail and Web connectivity were lost to many of Excite@Home's 2.1
million North American customers from Tuesday until Thursday due to a
corrupted domain name server database, a company spokeswoman said." [...]

"How many Excite@Home customers were without service is unclear. The
corruption in the DNS files disabled portions of about 25 percent of the
cable system serving North American customers."

[http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2659644-2,00.html]

"about 25%"???  
Only if you assume those were the only people actually trying to use the
service! These people can't seem to open their mouths without lying.  No
wonder their stock is at $6/share and headed to zero.

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