[Bricklin] Team.Net status

[Smoky & Connie Panepinto]

Mark,
Thanks for dealing with all that frustration!
We appreciate it.

Smoky P

Smoky Panepinto
Perkiomenville, PA

'75 Bricklin original owner
       (#1302 - Suntan)
'63 Lincoln Convertible
        (Black/Maroon/White)
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Mark J Bradakis
  To: bricklin at autox.team.net
  Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:30 AM
  Subject: [Bricklin] 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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