[Audifans-Admin] site outage possible

[Lawrence C Leung]

Welcome to the mercy of burecracy.

LL - NY

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:21:31 -0800 "Buchholz, Steven"
<Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com> writes:
>Hi there Dan!
>
>Yes, it is actually AT&T who is doing the deed ... they took over
>Northpoint's assets and basically told anyone who was affected "tough
>cookies, we're shutting it all down" ... I got the same message from 
>my
>provider ... which is the company that Megapath shuffled PhoenixDSL's
>residential accounts to ... Telocity ... who isn't real high on my 
>list
>right now either ... 
>
>I know from my point of view this whole thing has made me feel all the 
>more
>justified in dumping my AT&T cable account, and now I am tempted to 
>call and
>stop all of my long distance and local phone service with them.  AT&T 
>was
>apparently responsible for eight of KLA-Tencor's remote sites 
>becoming
>inaccessible over the company network over the past couple days too 
>... good
>thing I'm not holding any AT&T stock!
>
>It appears that you did not copy all of the lists, so I am forwarding 
>your
>note so that the folks on the lists I administer will be prepared as 
>well
>...
>
>Steve Buchholz
>San Jose, CA (USA)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Simoes [mailto:dans at audifans.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:05 PM
>> To: quattro at audifans.com; staff at audifans.com; 200q20v at audifans.com;
>> 20v at audifans.com; v8 at audifans.com; a4 at audifans.com
>> Subject: [Audifans-Staff] site outage possible
>> Importance: High
>> 
>> 
>> I just got a note from Megapath, my service provider.
>> It appears that Northpoint, who actually provides my DSL 
>> line, is about
>> to be completely shut down.  
>> I am looking into alternatives to keep the site alive, until the
>> replacement DSL is made available (which should be within 30 days).
>> 
>> If the site is down and you need to contact me for a status, you 
>can
>> send email to audifans at aol.com. 
>> 
>> Thanks.
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