Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:34:42 -0400, "Nil"
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On 27 Mar 2012, wrote in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:

I've tried eternal-september several times. They were originally
mozerella, and worked, but were down quite often, and I had to
sign up all over again when they lost the system records. When
they switched to eternal-september, my account was lost again. I
had to sign up once again, and shortly after that one would not
work. Again I signed up and used a different name. That lasted a
month or two before I could not connect again. That's when I gave
up on them. There's no reason a person should have to keep
signing up over and over, every few months or less.
I've had a Mozzarella/eternal-september account for several years, and
I've never had any of those problems, except for their occasional brief
outage.

Likewise, except I do recall an outage that was longer than what I
would call brief. They certainly haven't been perfect but hey, what do
you want for a free service?

AIOE, on the other hand, used to be down frequently, sometimes
for a week or more at a time.

Every time I tried to use AIOE they were down, so I gave up even trying
them. Bad luck on my part I suppose, but still.


AIOE was down for a long time once, because of a tiny issue with "hosting".

Paolo happened to comment, in a public forum, about the service his current
hosting company was providing. He had a machine inside their building,
running AIOE newsserver and web server.

The hosting, must search the web daily, for even the tiniest disparaging
comment. In North America, if you said what Paolo said, you'd just be
ignored. Most North America businesses react, only when someone does
purposeful damage (and isn't just expressing an opinion in an offhand way).
I mean, if AT&T reacted to every negative comments customers made
about their cell phone service, they'd have no customers if they reacted
the way this hosting company did.

When the hosting read what he said, he was immediately booted. He apparently
didn't have recent backups of everything, so basically had to build AIOE
from the ground up again. The post where he announced he was booted, was
here. The offending post is also in this thread (if you can believe it).

https://groups.google.com/group/alt....n&dmode=source

And that takes a few days, to build a server from the ground up.
The web server content, was never the same. Much was lost.

Moral of the story is, don't do business in Italy.

Paul