From mark at bradakis.com Wed May 6 01:30:51 2009 From: mark at bradakis.com (Mark J Bradakis) Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 01:30:51 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Morgans] Team.Net status Message-ID: <20090506073051.E4D022E0B6@bradakis.com> 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. From jblair1948 at cox.net Wed May 13 09:30:23 2009 From: jblair1948 at cox.net (John T. Blair) Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 11:30:23 -0400 Subject: [Morgans] AR, OH, NJ, NY, PA, TX friends Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.0.20090513113002.01d55920@cox.net> Looking for something to do? How about a Free concert? As you all know JohnC (my oldest son) is in the Army and plays the Clarinet with the Army Field Band. They are gearing up for their Summer Tour. Below is the latest schedule for their tour: June 27 - 7:30 pm - Latrobe, PA - Greater Latrobe Senior High School Auditorium, For Tickets/Info. call (301) 677-6586 June 28 - 2:30 pm - Chautauqua, NY - Chautauqua Amphitheater, For Tickets/Info. call (301) 677-6586 June 29 - 7:00 pm - Dansville, NY - Dansville Senior High School Gymnasium For Tickets/Info. call (301) 677-6586 June 30 - 7:00 pm - Clearfield, PA - Grandstand of Clearfield County Fairgrounds, For Tickets/Info. call (301) 677-6586 July 1 - 7:00 pm - Butler, PA - Butler Area Intermediate High School Auditorium, For Tickets/Info. call (301) 677-6586 July 2 - 7:30 pm - New Wilmington, PA - Westminster College Anderson Amphitheatre For Tickets/Info. call (301) 677-6586 July 3 - 8:00 pm - Boardman, OH - Boardman Park - Maag Outdoor Theatre, For Tickets/Info. call (301) 677-6586 or visit www.boardmanpark.com July 4 - 8:00 pm - Pittsburgh, PA - Pittsburgh North Shore Water Front Park Greatlawn, For Information call (301) 677-6586 July 25 - - Dallas/Waco Area, TX - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 July 26 - - Georgetown, TX - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 July 27 - - San Antonio, TX - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 July 28 - - The Woodlands, TX - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 July 29 - - Tyler/Longview, TX - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 July 30 - - Hot Springs, AR - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 July 31 - - Little Rock, AR - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 August 1 - - Texarkana, TX - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 September 23 - - Deer Park, NY - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 September 24 - - Holmdel, NJ - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 September 25 - - Saratoga Springs, NY - TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 September 26 - - Selinsgrove, PA TBD, For Information call (301) 677-6586 For more information go to: http://www.armyfieldband.com/pages/schedule/bc_sched.html If you make it out to one of the concerts, after the concert try to say hello to my son SSG JohnC Blair. John John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair1948 at cox.net Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229 48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V (B1106) 75 Bricklin SV1 (#0887) 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III 65 Rambler Classic Morgan: www.team.net/www/morgan Bricklin: www.bricklin.org If you can read this - Thank a teacher! If you are reading it in English - Thank a Vet!!