Mark,
Thanks for all your help keeping us up and running, both our cars and
computers! I know I speak for the list in expressing my sincere gratitude.
Bill
Bill Beecher
'58 TR-3A TS/30766 L (On the road in 2009!)
'59 TR-3A TS/64974 LO (in buckets, for sale... anyone?)
"A Triumph is man's best friend, it always comes when it is called...of
course, some times it is difficult to make it go"
-----Original Message-----
From: british-cars-bounces@autox.team.net
[mailto:british-cars-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Mark J Bradakis
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:13 AM
To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: [British-cars] Team.Net status
Yes, there have been problems with the Team.Net mailing lists, related web
pages, FTP stuff and such. And it ain't over yet. It should all be fine by
next week, though.
The current ISP providing Team.Net connectivity along with several other
domains and network related services is Qwest.
Saturday, May 2nd, they cut off my network access. They have been recieving
complaints about "malicious activity" from one of my servers. It has
happened before. The first time I actually spent many hours on the phone
over a period of several days and found out the nature of the "malicious
activity."
Someone too lazy or too stupid to click on the 'unsubscribe'
link for one of the mailing lists was flagging all incoming Team.Net emails
as spam. Once I finally managed to penetrate deep into the Qwest support to
find someone with more than a single digit IQ, it took me just a few seconds
to remove the braindead A-hole from the lists to which they subscribed.
It happened again a while back, again I took the time and effort to finally
get to the root of the problem and removed the whining piece of human debris
from the appropriate list.
This time I've had enough. It is so frustrating to have to go through their
entire little debugging script *every time* I talk to a new person about it:
Them: What operating system are you running?
Me: Unix, FreeBSD 6.2
Them: No, I mean are you running Vista, XP or Windows 98?
Me: Like I said, I'm running Unix, FreeBSD 6.2. I am NOT
running Windows, just like I told all the other ...
You know, a lot of people who just use computers as a basic appliance would
not understand the details of that conversation, they have no need to. But
tech support people working for a major company like Qwest? How do people
that incompetent get through the first job interview? Do they have anyone
on their staff who can even *spell* Unix??
At any rate, the problem that Qwest claims I have is still not resolved,
they will most likely once again cut off my network access soon. As I said,
I've had enough.
On Friday, May 8th I will be changing from Qwest to XMission, located here
in Salt Lake, for Team.Net ISP service. The changeover will result in
Team.Net services being unavailable for a few days. IP addresses,
nameserver data, etc. will take a day or two or so to percolate through the
network.
So expect sporadic service over the next few days, but it should all settle
down by early next week.
Thank you for your patience.
mjb.
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