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

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From: musicman102357
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) ~~~~~~~~~~~
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Subject: Re: Yet Another SN@FU: "Excite@Home outage hits thousands"
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