[SEL] List outage

Richard Fink Sr nancydick at pennswoods.net
Sun Jun 5 20:50:34 PDT 2005


Thank you Spencer
R Fink




At 03:37 PM 6/5/2005, you wrote:
>Many apologies to ATIS users.  The recent outage was of a spotty,
>on-again/off-again nature and was the result of many issues, culminating in
>my needing a new cable run across my property.  A temporary cable was
>stretched across the ground and ATIS was back up about 4:00 pm this
>afternoon.  Everything is running better now than it has in a week.
>
>By the way, If anyone wonders why I pay extra for "business class" cable
>Internet access and have always recommended that no one run servers on a
>home based cable service, my experience this weekend should give you a case
>in point.   During my problems, I had a truck here everyday, including the
>weekend, with a technician inside from the cable company.  Always within 20
>minutes of my "it's down again" call.   If this was a home Internet access
>package, I would have some broken down sub contractor with grubby tools,
>prison tattoos, and no skills within maybe 3 days.   How do I know?
>Because the latter shows up for problems with my TV and used to show up for
>my Internet problems before I got business class.   The former shows up
>now.
>
>Thanks for your patience,
>
>PS:   Part of the outage was because during these periods of declining
>service levels caused by the cable, I took the opportunity to shut down the
>mail software and accelerate some plans for ATIS upgrades, including
>security changes that include SIGNIFICANT changes to way ATIS's servers
>send and receive email.   As usual, you can be proud that ATIS is adopting
>significant technologies well ahead of virtually everyone else.  Some of
>these changes started last weekend during a short outage and the rest took
>place yesterday and today.
>
>Spencer Yost
>Owner, ATIS
>Plow the Net!
>http://www.atis.net
>
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