Hello??? Trevor Boicey
I have to add that I found the problem to be located in the Utah
"remailer" for this list. I'm sorry that I started this. The Internet has
a few security breaks ( Mostly with unix and MS servers) but I doubt that
this was the prob on Fri. Maybe just a hardware upgrade (Intel?) or just
that it is a triumph listserver that is the remailer? Must be a Lucas
Computer.
Larry Macy
78 Midget
>Carol wrote:
>> Sorry to disappoint you, Trevor! I'm not speculating. I'm reporting facts
>> that reside in my in-box.
>
> No.
>
> The "fact" is that you aren't getting email.
>
> What you reported was "the internet is broken".
>
> Big difference.
>
> Other than mail from team.net, I didn't notice a single
>hiccup for the whole period. So a machine is down somewhere,
>that's to be expected.
>
>> In your reply you left out this part: "There was some "protester" hacking
>> done earlier in the week."
>> That fact was on the National Public Radio news Tuesday night.
>
> Oh I'm sorry, the media is always correct. And they never
>sensationalize either.
>
>> My error was in saying "internet" instead of e-mail handling. Sorry about
>> the oversight.
>
> Not to pound you into the ground, but email is carried
>on the net like anything else. There is no "email system",
>email is carried in packets over the normal system. The
>machines along the way don't know if they are carrying
>mail or news or pornography.
>
> There is no situation where "internet email" can be
>down. One site may not be accepting it, or another
>may not be sending it. That might interrupt your ability
>to send or receive mail to certain people. But it can
>never be a total failure where "mail is broken" for
>all users net-wide.
>
> So not to be heavy, but you say your error was saying
>"internet" instead of "email handling", but both are
>wrong. I still got hundreds of emails that day, just not
>from autox.team.net.
>
> Why does this worry me so much? Because the next time
>somebody goes an hour without email, they are going to
>say that "they heard somewhere" that hackers broke
>a site somewhere and email is down.
>
> (But they'll probably be happier anyways since it'll
>protect them from the GOOD TIMES virus. But they won't
>be able to send email to help that poor little hospital
>boy. etc. etc. urban legend after urban legend)
>
>> It won't be "broken" until the feds get their collective hands on it.
>
> I'll leave the American government paranoia to all
>the other threads like emissions and laws. Lest we have
>to rename the mailing list.
>
>--
>Trevor Boicey
>Ottawa, Canada
>tboicey@brit.ca
>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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