OT: query on world.std.com

[galsterm at gmail.com (Matt Galster)]

Last few trips I've made, they didn't have any POPs anywhere close to
where I went.  As in not even in that region of the country.  I'm
already migrating stuff over.  Business cards are next.

MEG

On 8/16/05, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> On Monday 15 August 2005 6:19 pm, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:26:34PM -0400, Bob Leigh wrote:
> > > > forgive me, but has world.std.com gone off the air for good?
> > > >
> > > > no nameservice, no ping (host unreachable), no mx records...
> > >
> > > Traceroute (from a comcast cable modem connection) goes as far as
> > > TowerStream's routers at the Pru.
> > >
> > > World's supportsters say it's a problem with their upstream provider
> > > and they hope to be back by 5pm today.
> >
> > Amazingly, this is a plausible reason for the outage. (No, I will not be
> > renewing our contract with TowerStream. Nor do I recommend that anyone
> > use them until they get their act together...)
> I keep my world account for 3 reasons:
> 1. They are my backup dialup provider if cable every goes down. (Probably
> not a good reason since I probably will lose my phone service too).
> 2. If I am on the road, I can use them. Again, not a strong reason since
> nearly every hotel has direct Internet.
> 3. I like my gaf user id.
> 
> In any case, I don't think I have any real need for it.
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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