Code Red

David P. Schwartz plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Wed, 08 Aug 2001 21:58:38 -0700


My one year contract for Qwest DSL is up the end of this month, and I've been planning on switching to Ricochet.  They were scheduled to
go off-the-air today.  Covad just filed for Chapt. 11 the other day.  Is there anybody else left beside Cox, Qwest and Sprint in this
area?

-David

Jim wrote:

> The interesting thing about the whole issue is that no one is mentioning that
> only MS servers seem to be infected.  Not that MS ever considers security as
> a priority, but why isnt the media screaming bloody murder over the software
> that is allowing this virus, and others, to spread?
>
> On another note, the Qwest servers in Phoenix have been down for at least
> part of the day today and yesterday.  I bet it has something to do with the
> latest surge of infections propogating over the net.  After almost an hour
> waiting for tech services, I got no satisfaction.  I will be contacting Kimi
> this afternoon about setting up dialup service with UnityWave.
>
> I had considered moving to UnityWave ever since Qwest decided to throw in
> with MSN, but their latest service outages and their total incompetence
> solving their own problems have moved the timetable up.
>
> Jim