Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:12:02 -0800 From: "John Purser" <johnmpurser@home.com> To: <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: @home.com's e-mail problems Message-ID: <000301bf6a95$1b984aa0$40390918@vncvr1.wa.home.com>
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Is anyone else out there getting fed up with the periodic e-mail outages on the @home network? In my experience they go down about once a week. For the last three days my mail has come straggling in up to 12 hours after it was sent! While most of the @home support people don't know what OS they are running (or why it's not running now, or why it died yesterday, or why no one in Vancouver can connect at all, or how an entire state(s) can drop off the network without anyone @home noticing, or ... the list goes on) I pressed the one I was talking to today and she went and asked. The story she came back with was that the e-mail was handled by NT servers. I sent an e-mail expressing my frustration and pointed out that even MS doesn't use NT for heavy duty e-mail service. I suggested they look into FreeBSD as a way of upgrading their technology and reliability. If they receive this suggestion from enough people they might start listening. Especially now. Wednesday when I called in the second tier support person I spoke to told me that the @home e-mail was down for the entire US and they didn't know why! If they received multiple e-mails suggesting FreeBSD as an alternative with helpful contacts at Yahoo, Walnut Creek, or HotMail then we might get another large commercial user to join the ranks! John Purser To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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