** Reply to message from "Lewis G Rosenthal"
<os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:32:16 -0500
Lew, Toshiba told me today that they would ship my "free upgrade" to Vista by
the weekend. Is that the same as turning a new virus loose on the net <g>.
> This surely is annoying. Verizon (of course) tells me that
> the ticket is still open, but there is nothing to report.
> I was clear when I opened the ticket that this was not
> residential service, but business. Naturally, without an
> SLA, they could care less. I'm hoping that by going into
> my clients remotely later tonight, and bringing a few
> boxes online at a time (after the backup, which is why we
> close the POP3 clients at the end of the day), I may be
> able to avoid the flood in the morning between 8:30 and
> 9am.
>
> I've also been checking web-related news stories, as we
> have been seeing issues for the past couple of weeks (but
> unfortunately, nothing I could put my finger on until this
> weekend). I'd never seen the available 384Kbps get bottled
> up like it did a couple weeks ago. The day after, Road
> Runner cable at one of my clients went down for half the
> day, and when that one came back up, the flood started all
> over again, luckily lasting only a half hour or so.
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:14:07 -0700
> "Will Honea" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> wrote:
> > Something funny is going on - I've been fighting the
> >same problem with at least
> > two other sites I maintain for the last week. One
> >turned out to be an open
> > SMTP forwarder on the server spewing SPAM and chewing up
> >the bandwidth, the
> > other is ongoing with a different provider.
> >
> <snip>
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