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

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From: Oliver Costich
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:00

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On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 02:44:25 GMT, "Patrick Coleman"
<whiteyx@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Mike Blackford" <mike@blackford.com> wrote in message
>news:3A271002.94139133@blackford.com...
>> "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.
>>
>
>I wish the story had included the fact that THEY LIED to customers that
>managed to get through to them...
>

Or are they just that stupid? The recorded message said that mail was
down. But news was too, and they failed to mention that.

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