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[oletrucks] Re: oletrucks-digest V2 #3098

To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>, <mark@bradakis.com>
Subject: [oletrucks] Re: oletrucks-digest V2 #3098
From: <dennis.mcgillis@mcgilliscompany.com>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:28:33 -0700
Hi Mark,

Since your May 8 message a week late you must have made the change to 
Xmission.

Some of us can relate to your ISP problems. Besides my website, I manage a 
trade association and their site, both hosted. My ISP is ATT DSL.

Do you have a dedicated IP address or share one? My shared IP has caused 
spamming and backscatter complaints that are not about me. When I gripe to 
the host they get it to stop but meanwhile hotmail, MSM, AOL and others have 
blacklisted me. Grr.

Do you use the tools at dnsstuff.com for troubleshooting? I have found it to 
be very helpful.

Best of luck.

Dennis McGillis in CA
1953 3100 in WA


> Date: Wed,  6 May 2009 03:54:40 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Mark J Bradakis <mark@bradakis.com>
> Subject: [oletrucks] 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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