XPost: rec.collecting.stamps.discuss, rec.collecting.stamps.marketplace   
   From: b.ingraham@shaw.ca   
      
   1/21/2004 4:27 PM   
      
   > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:53:27 -0000, "David F."    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>> Hi there -   
   >>>   
   >>> If anyone is trying to get ahold of me, try e-mailing me at this   
   >>> address:   
   >>>   
   >>> TracyBarber-at-nycap.rr.com   
   >>>   
   >>> Of course, change the -at- to @.   
   >>>   
   >>> My web host went kapooey about 5 PM last night and they won't be up   
   >>> until later tonight / maybe tomorrow morning.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wonder-____-ful.  :^p   
   >>>   
   >>> Not only my business e-mail is there, my auctions info, scans of lots,   
   >>> etc...  Apparently their upstream provider went poof on them and they   
   >>> had no contingency plan.  Unfortunately, when you have bids on items   
   >>> in eBay, you can't change the graphics of the description.   
   >>>   
   >>> ... Poop ...   
   >>>   
   >>> That started my day and it hasn't gotten any better since.  I can't   
   >>> wait to hear about all the bounced mail and problems with potential   
   >>> business / bidders.  :^(   
   >>>   
   >>> I need some good news.  (Don't tell me about GEICO!!!!!)  So, if   
   >>> someone is bored and wants to help out a stranded internet superhiway   
   >>> type stamp collector, send me some good tidings, OK?   
   >>>   
   >>> I guess I'll have to do off-line things tonight.  Boo hiss.   
   >>>   
   >>> ... Miffed in smAlbany ...   
   >>>   
   >>> Tracy Barber   
   >>   
   >> Hi Tracy,   
   >>   
   >> I set up an extra Hotmail account for the times when   
   >> my other email accounts are 'down' (not very often!).   
   >>   
   >> The service is far better now than it used to be, and I   
   >> get NO junkmail or infected messages at all!   
   >>   
   >> I will catch up with things soon - lots of overtime this   
   >> week, so not much spare time for 'stamping' yet!   
   >   
   > Going on 3 days of disturbance.  Has upset the apple cart severely.  I   
   > have 2 new e-mail accounts and will set up another, just for newsgroup   
   > spam.  :^)   
   >   
   > This sux.   
   >   
   > Tracy Barber   
      
   The web host for my son's massage therapy web site just disappeared a couple   
   of years ago. One moment they were there, the next they were gone. They   
   wouldn't respond to e-mails or telephone calls, and never did. Eventually   
   Paul got in touch with a company which had bought out the previous company,   
   but they had no records of his web site, and no files. Fortunately, he had   
   everything backed up, but what a pain! I wrote a letter to my local member   
   of Parliament, asking if here government had considered legislation to   
   control fly-by-night web hosts, but she never responded. So much for   
   representative government.   
      
   Bob   
      
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