 sj |
||
|
||
BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters
|
|
|
Subject: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 01 - 12:47 PM I should have known better than to believe them. Our cable company assured me our service would not go down without advance notice because that is what AT&T told them. Excite.com's @HOME went off at midnight last night. We are using Roger's workplace dial up, from home, so I will not be on very often until it gets sorted out. They say a "week or two!" Anyway, for anyone who wonders why I don't answer a PM or email, it's just that I cannot use the station account for very long a stretch and my email addy is kaput for the moment. I will be checking my hotmail account when I get on, so you can reach me there, if need be. It is fullspoken@hotmail.com Thanks a bunch. Any others with @home accounts who would like to post alternatve means to reach them, please feel free. kat |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Biskit Date: 01 Dec 01 - 12:58 PM I have an @home account here in Arizona,..and well so far so good,... this mornings paper was the first tome I had seen it in print, a friend from Oregon mentioned it about a week back, but I told her that surely that theres was an isolated incident. Like I said as for Arizona, so far so good. I dread the thought of sending all my contacts change of address notices. Peace! ~Biskit~ |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 01 - 03:28 PM Boy, you're lucky, Biskit. I'd make alternative plans, if I were you. Also see the recent thread Amergin posted with info about the court which was ruling in San Francisco, yesterday. Evidently the judge ruled for Excite's creditors and shut them down with no advance notice. Thus, even though they told us we'd have advance warning, there was none! Good luck, kat |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Clinton Hammond Date: 01 Dec 01 - 06:02 PM Maybe it's a Canadian thing, but my @Home provider gave me 3 weeks notice before shutting down, and gave me an easy to follow, talk-ya-through-it guide to transfer my email and web site accout over... took me all of maybe 15 minutes to do it, and then I was able to totally forget about it... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Dec 01 - 06:17 PM Tell ya' CH, I think this may be one of the things you need to add to your next "Why Canada is Better" threads, because it seems that the several I've heard about in the states have all gone with little or no warning and the several in Canada I know about have been like yours. Spaw |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 01 - 06:40 PM Yeah, that's what I've heard, too, Spaw. Just here for a quick peek. Talked to Aine, her's went down today, also! Thanks for getting the word out for me, Spaw. CH, keep up the good work! I can't take the time for PM's right now, sorry. Thanks! kat |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Bill D Date: 01 Dec 01 - 07:56 PM tsk...I have friends in Seattle area who are NOT cut off...yet. They are worried, though |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 01 Dec 01 - 09:53 PM tci is working on a broadband service of their own... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 01 - 10:26 PM so is at&t, trying purchase @home, but I'll bet they lose a lot of customers over this. The carrot is they are giving us 2 days free for every day down.:-) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 01 Dec 01 - 10:53 PM att is tci.... cox has been working on it's own broadband service...should be out around june... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 01 - 11:00 PM oh that's right, they don't call it tci here, anymore, sorry gonna get off now...:-) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 01 Dec 01 - 11:05 PM take care, katdarling...hope it gets squared away with you soon... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 01 - 11:07 PM thanks, Nathan, I hope it has not caused you any short term problems, either! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Mr Red Date: 02 Dec 01 - 04:33 AM I have noticed a lot of e-mail services (and sites) unavailable at the same time the 'cat was down. my pet theory is they (pick a paranoic target) are forcing the installation of intercept software here in the UK it was going to happen but after 9/11 it seeems inevitable. I reckon a few major ISP's did it at the same time and the dimiution of capacity made everything go slow. Not all went smoothly either, my e-mail was out for 4 days and Yahoo and joymail were inaccessable. call me a conspiracy theorist but I noticed uncle Bill's hotmail was available! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 02 Dec 01 - 05:19 AM Our broadband provider gave us notice plus converted us to their @ service (Shaw, Canada), BUT the GREAT benefit was losing all my spam mail. I had registered with newspapers (LA Times, Miami Herald) to use their archives and I think most of the spam came from outfits that bought their lists. I register now only if absolutely necessary. Some companies, like Amazon, pester you with adds, and I now try to avoid them as well. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amos Date: 02 Dec 01 - 07:55 AM @Home has dumped over 800000 people and lost them their net access, current email, etc., according to the NY Times in this story. Bloody mess they've made of it, wot? A |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 02 Dec 01 - 04:20 PM The outfit is in receivership. The mess is the natural result of that. No other company wants to pick up the pieces. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Justa Picker Date: 02 Dec 01 - 04:44 PM There is a very serious problem/bug (or intentional?) with the new "rogers.com" service in Canada (replacing the former @home service here). And I have been unable to speak with anyone at tech support either via phone or getting a response back from them in e-mail (It's been 5 days since I emailed them.) Their new e-mail (SMTP) server consistently blocks ANY outgoing email to be sent if the sender's address ends in ANYTHING other than "@rogers.com". (The old mail server made no distinctions who the sender was. It merely provided the "juice" required to send e-mails.) Surely this will be a major problem for those who use email programs which support more than one (differentiating) email address. In my case, I have a biz website and a domain name and email addresses with that domain name as the suffix. I frequently send biz emails to clients showing my biz email address as the sender, and rely on the SMTP server of my ISP to provide the "juice" (or the SMTP server) for ALL outgoing email. With this new SMTP changerover, I keep getting a Eudora "error 550" telling me that "sending email from This stupidity is analagous to my paying the hydro/power bills in my home, and my hydro company has now decided that their policy for all of their subscribers is that only I can turn on or off a light switch or activate any other power source in my home. If any of my family members, relatives or guests that visit me wish to use my hydro (or someone who's identity is not recognizable to them from the given home, they can't turn on or off a light, television, etc...in my home. Only me. Amazing eh? The instant DSL or ADSL is available in my area, I'm gone from Rogers. Can't get get any response from them which is also typcial. They're also being class action sued big time for failing to deliver on their adverstising promises. They have the worst support I have ever seen and deserve to be shut down. I may very well join the class action suit. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 02 Dec 01 - 06:28 PM Just a note, PMs here to me are probably better than sending to my hotmail as I've noticed, using this connection, that I can get and read emails there okay, but when I try to send I get the illegal motion error and it shuts my browser down.:-( I read that it was over 850,000 and that Excite shut everything off when AT&T refused to up the ante, calling excite's bluff. Nice the way they play with people's livelihoods, isn't it? Amergin, did this effect your job? I sure hope not, they need service people more than ever now to assuage the anger, etc. Just what you want to do, huh? sorry, darlin' katcheckingin |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Áine Date: 02 Dec 01 - 08:05 PM Hey y'all! I was shut off by AT&T too, but fortunately I had an internal modem that I forgot all about. Am now signed for 56K dial-up with Juno.com (geez, what a come down! - hahaha). My email is with yahoo.com, so I can still reach it. I just feel sorry for all those folks who used @home for their email service. I agree with kat, isn't it wonderful how these big corpos love to play 'slap it on the table and let's see who's got the biggest' when the greatest effect is on all their customers (who support the CEO's penile envy counseling sessions) -- sorry, just had to 'blow off' a little steam there ;-) -- Áine |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Jon Freeman Date: 02 Dec 01 - 08:26 PM JP, I think that is called relaying and it's not too uncommon for ISPs to dissallow it. I have been in that sort of situation in the past although I have no problems at the moment. Jon |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 02 Dec 01 - 09:26 PM Sorry katdarlin...and aine...I am rather disgusted by that too...but ATT is coming out with their own broadband and rather soon...and are already providing support.. So far my job itself has not been affected...except that things are alot quieter as ATT/TCI was the biggest company affiliated with excite... Things look better for me employment wise now than they did in the last few days...now it is looking that when our support gets scaled back more and more...I will be just transferred to a different department and do support for some one else...but just in case if push does come to shove I have been taking a look at the job market...and have been getting things ready to send off...
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 03 Dec 01 - 04:47 PM Not your fault, Nathan, thanks, though. We're now signed up with a slow telephone connection, too, just until the cable is back up (soon,I hope!) But, at least I am not worried about keeping Roger's boss off while I Mudcat! Thanks, ya'll! kat |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Kim C Date: 03 Dec 01 - 05:07 PM I'm confused though. I don't have @home but have friends here and in other states who do. Got mail from one in Colorado yesterday, and one here today. Have sent mail to both in the last couple of days... is it just AT&T customers? How would AT&T customers have @home? I thought they had att.net. Does AT&T really own everything and they're just not telling us? Some days it really sucks being an unfrozen caveman. :-) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 03 Dec 01 - 05:28 PM Yes, currently it is only ATT customers. @home used to rent out it's servers to ATT and several other companies, like Cox or Comcast. But ATT also had several other internet services...like worldnet...which I think is dial up....and they have MediaOne...which is a cable serviceor at least they did...many of those customers were converted before @home cut them off. Now ATT has ATT broadband (I think it is called) I still have no idea what is going to happen to the other @home customers...whether they will eventually lose their service or not...I do not think anyone really knows right now... |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Devilmaster Date: 03 Dec 01 - 05:41 PM Just a little thought while reading this thread, hope it helps.
Not always exactly sure how it works stateside, but here in Windsor, ont. Canada, (where Clinton and I live) I have talked with people who said that they would go AOL after problems with cable's @home service.
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Clinton Hammond Date: 03 Dec 01 - 05:44 PM As far as Alt contacts go, might I once again suggest that folks take this opportunity to set up an email account at visto.com... actually www.myvisto.com It beats the hell out of that hunk of junk that is Hotmail... Won't help ya get online, but it will help ya keep in touch... ;-) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 03 Dec 01 - 05:53 PM Thanks, Amergin, Steve and Clinton. Good advice. What I read was, yes, AT&T does have its broadband division, it is what we pay to every month for highspeed internet access and email. AT&T used Excite's @home server, or whatever, to put people like us on. They are now in a pissing contest, leaving a bunch of us out in the cold, while AT&T hurries to build up more of its own network. And, they are still, I think, trying to buy @home. I heard on NPR, today, that only 15% (I think) of the @home folks were still cut off, like us. Not sure, I may have heard wrong. Clinton, I will check that out. Hotmail is really fecked up! Thanks! kat |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Clinton Hammond Date: 03 Dec 01 - 08:24 PM Another star in Visto's crown... you can configure it to notify you over ICQ or AIM when new mail comes in... ;-) |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Áine Date: 03 Dec 01 - 09:45 PM Well, AT&T Broadband has me back 'up' again -- BUT (ain't there always a 'but') when I bring up the Mudcat, the format is all over the place and there's a bunch of gobbledygook symbols where the Quicklinks box should be, etc. Does anyone have any idea whether it's my PC or the connection, or what? And it's just the 'Cat that seems to be having the problem -- all the other sites I've been to are working just fine . . . Best guesses are welcome, too. -- Áine |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 03 Dec 01 - 10:40 PM Aine! glad to hear you are back up! does it only happen with one browser? |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: magician Date: 04 Dec 01 - 08:40 AM of course things are bound to be better in Canada Spaw. they are still part of the British Commonwealth which you lot spurned 200 years ago |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Áine Date: 04 Dec 01 - 08:48 AM Dear Amergin, Well, Dear Hubby loaded up Netscape 6.2 last night and the 'Cat was still looking pretty wobbly. This morning, however, things seemed to have improved a bit -- no more splattered format and/or gobbledygook; however, the menu bar/graphic at the very top of the main forum page and thread pages still goes catywhumpus every now and then (in both Netscape and IE). And I did notice that, in Netscape, as well as getting the usual 'Connecting to...' and 'Transferring data from...' messages when I tried to connect with the Mudcat server(s), I saw a 'Resolving host...' message as well. Is that a clue? I figure it has something to do with the routers dropping a few bits and bytes here and there while AT&T gets their broadband act together. I'm adopting a 'wait and see' attitude. ;-) -- Áine |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Amergin Date: 05 Dec 01 - 03:07 AM Yeah...that is most likely the cause of it...if you called they would tell you that it was something outside the network and they would not be able to help you...after they had you do a trace route...especially since it is only one site and both browsers...ah well...I hear things are still rather wobbly with their connection as yet...but these should all be ironed out, soon... According to the NY Times...Excite@Home is folding completely on the 28th of February....Cox, Comcast, Insight and a couple of others will be hosting their own networks....other smaller companies will be left out in the cold...as they do not have the funds nor that many prospective customers to support their own networks.... As for my employment, things are looking better. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: artbrooks Date: 05 Dec 01 - 08:41 AM For those who are shopping for alternatives, I just picked up Earthlink broadband. I had Earthlink dialup before, and I wanted the faster speed without the hassle of changing our e-mail addresses. They provided the modem, filters, software, etc. They have a nice feature called the "Spaminator" that catches about 80% of the junk mail, but I eliminated most of that by quiting Bigfoot. So far the only problem was finding where the new software hid my Netscape address book. |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 05 Dec 01 - 10:10 AM Thanks, artbrooks, I'll look into that. We still haven't received our "phone call" telling us when we will be "migrated" (first time I've ever heard that used in a passive sense) to the new server. kat |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 06 Dec 01 - 12:31 PM YES!!! We are back on high-speed access! True to their word, we are back on as of Thursday. I hope they keep things steady and stable. New email addy, once again, but oh well!
|
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: Sorcha Date: 06 Dec 01 - 12:34 PM and the new one is.........?? Send me mail! |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 06 Dec 01 - 01:09 PM Just did, darlin'...not to worry.**BG** |
|
Subject: RE: BS: Alt. contacts for @home Mudcatters From: katlaughing Date: 06 Dec 01 - 01:22 PM Just did, darlin'...not to worry.**BG** |