Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-18 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 17/07/13 23:52, Jeff Walter wrote: On 7/17/13 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-18 Thread Jorge Amodio
JVNCNet survived and became operated by Global Enterprise Services, the company Sergio created to spin off the network out of Princeton University, GES was acquired by Verio in 1997 and Sergio moved to start another company. Last message I've got from him said he was in Panama providing

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided firewall security, web caching, optional content filtering, an e-mail server, a web

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Jeff Walter
On 7/17/13 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided firewall security, web caching, optional

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Roy
On 7/17/2013 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided firewall security, web caching, optional

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:36:19 -0700, Roy said: On 7/17/2013 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service,

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Chris Boyd
On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:36 -0700, Roy wrote: On 7/17/2013 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service,

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Jorge Amodio
Ohh we had some of those at JVNCNet, a real piece of crap. -Jorge On Jul 17, 2013, at 6:56 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 16:36:19 -0700, Roy said: On 7/17/2013 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March

RE: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Ohh we had some of those at JVNCNet, a real piece of crap. Wow. JVNCnet. Haven't heard that name in a long, long time.

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Alex Rubenstein (a...@corp.nac.net) wrote: Ohh we had some of those at JVNCNet, a real piece of crap. Wow. JVNCnet. Haven't heard that name in a long, long time. RIP Sir Alec Guinness. Stephen signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Gordon Cook
* Alex Rubenstein (a...@corp.nac.net) wrote: Ohh we had some of those at JVNCNet, a real piece of crap. Wow. JVNCnet. Haven't heard that name in a long, long time. Same here. I worked there from September 1987 through the closure in june of 1990. Whatever happened to Sergio Heker?

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 12, 2013, at 19:22 , Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW. That's simply not realistic for many companies and essentially all people (to a first approximation). -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread ryangard
W. Gilmore To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Friday Hosing Sent: Jul 14, 2013 6:22 PM On Jul 12, 2013, at 19:22 , Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW. That's simply not realistic for many

RE: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread Tony Patti
[mailto:patr...@ianai.net] Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 6:23 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Friday Hosing On Jul 12, 2013, at 19:22 , Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW. That's simply

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread jim deleskie
, July 14, 2013 6:23 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Friday Hosing On Jul 12, 2013, at 19:22 , Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW. That's simply not realistic for many companies

RE: Friday Hosing

2013-07-14 Thread Tony Patti
Packaging Corp. From: jim deleskie [mailto:deles...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 8:44 PM To: Tony Patti Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Friday Hosing I could support any of these services myself, and have guys that work me that can as well, but none of these are my core business, and my

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-13 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 7/12/13, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-07-12 11:44, Alain Hebert wrote: 1- You call to make cancellation on date X. Speak to person 1. 2- Wait 20 minutes In a theoretical ideal world, that would probably work fine, but a request for Shut off service

RE: Friday Hosing

2013-07-13 Thread Frank Bulk
- From: Jimmy Hess [mailto:mysi...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 4:09 AM To: Jean-Francois Mezei Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Friday Hosing On 7/12/13, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: On 13-07-12 11:44, Alain Hebert wrote: 1- You call to make cancellation

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-13 Thread Eric Adler
Just finished migration from a provider that I was no longer happy with to a new provider. Fully expecting them to turn me off the moment I said 'cancel', I prepared everything in advance, moved all the pointers over a few days prior to my planned day to tell them to 'shutoff', retrieved a final

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-13 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 7/13/13, Eric Adler eapt...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. Maintain control. If you want to avoid the cost of doubling, discuss the risk for the new provider, and ask if they can waive their fee for the period until the old service is cancelled, before agreeing to complete the sale. As

Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Alain Hebert
Is it me or the bigger a corporation gets the more vindictive (a b-word intended) they are to customers leaving them? -- One of my *new* customer was caught by the local monopole into moving their domain/site/emails/phone/oxygen supply/etc to them. But when the usual grace period stopped

RE: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Jason Faraone
whenever the carrier dictates, regardless of what your contract says. Typing this was somewhat therapeutic. -Original Message- From: Alain Hebert [mailto:aheb...@pubnix.net] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 10:45 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Friday Hosing Is it me or the bigger

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Alain Hebert aheb...@pubnix.net Is it me or the bigger a corporation gets the more vindictive (a b-word intended) they are to customers leaving them? [ long saga elided ] And now you know why it's standard operating procedure: *Never* tell the losing

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread nanog
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Alain Hebert wrote: Is it me or the bigger a corporation gets the more vindictive (a b-word intended) they are to customers leaving them? Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Hopefully this isn't one of mine, but I've seen this

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Composed on a virtual keyboard, please forgive typos. On Jul 12, 2013, at 13:25, na...@namor.ca wrote: On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, Alain Hebert wrote: Is it me or the bigger a corporation gets the more vindictive (a b-word intended) they are to customers leaving them? Never attribute to malice

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Bryan Fields
On 7/12/13 1:39 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Put another way, whether it was stupid or evil, the results are the same. Turning off a customer in good standing is actionable in court, and should be avoided by legitimate businesses at nearly all costs. You can void a contract at any time so

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 12, 2013, at 13:44 , Bryan Fields br...@bryanfields.net wrote: On 7/12/13 1:39 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Put another way, whether it was stupid or evil, the results are the same. Turning off a customer in good standing is actionable in court, and should be avoided by legitimate

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
On 13-07-12 11:44, Alain Hebert wrote: After a somewhat pleasant call to the monopole informing them that they are planning to divorce them in 30 days, and that it was clearly stated that since they are paying for those additional 30 days that their services wont be cut off... 1- You call to

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Alain Hebert
On 07/12/13 13:54, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jul 12, 2013, at 13:44 , Bryan Fields br...@bryanfields.net wrote: On 7/12/13 1:39 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Put another way, whether it was stupid or evil, the results are the same. Turning off a customer in good standing is actionable in

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Set up your own email server, host your own web pages, maintain your own cloud, breath your own oxygen FTW. N.