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Article #235Re: Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"
From: musicman102357
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 01:12
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2000 01:12
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I have been down since Thanksgiving and still I dont have service , Lucky me I got my dsl hooked up last month , @ Home fucking sucks . On Fri, 01 Dec 2000 02:42:10 GMT, Mike Blackford <mike@blackford.com> wrote: >"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. > >-- >~ "What's wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, ~ >~~~~~~~~~~ which is the exact opposite." (Bertrand Russell) ~~~~~~~~~~~ >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Zvxr Oynpxsbeq Fvyvpba Inyyrl, Pnyvsbeavn zvxr@oynpxsbeq.pbz
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