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David Schultz
Mar 12, 2019, 5:51:59 PM3/12/19
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Earthlink personal web pages have been down since Thursday. I first
noticed when the ftp server refused a connection when I tried to upload
some new data.
Accessing the pages just redirects to a page stating that the data is
being migrated.
When I contacted customer support Friday they stated that there was some
maintenance going on and it would be completed Monday.
When I called Monday they said they were aware of and working on the
problem. No estimate this time of when it would be back.
I am beginning to suspect the answer to that is never. I stumbled onto
an item in an Earthlink FAQ stating that the free web space was no
longer part of the service for new customers starting in 2018.
They keep reducing the S in ISP.
--
http://home.earthlink.net/~david.schultz
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. - Sam Spade
noticed when the ftp server refused a connection when I tried to upload
some new data.
Accessing the pages just redirects to a page stating that the data is
being migrated.
When I contacted customer support Friday they stated that there was some
maintenance going on and it would be completed Monday.
When I called Monday they said they were aware of and working on the
problem. No estimate this time of when it would be back.
I am beginning to suspect the answer to that is never. I stumbled onto
an item in an Earthlink FAQ stating that the free web space was no
longer part of the service for new customers starting in 2018.
They keep reducing the S in ISP.
--
http://home.earthlink.net/~david.schultz
The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter. - Sam Spade
Ant
Mar 12, 2019, 7:39:29 PM3/12/19
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They don't even mention it in its own
https://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php web page. :(
David Schultz <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> Earthlink personal web pages have been down since Thursday. I first
> noticed when the ftp server refused a connection when I tried to upload
> some new data.
> Accessing the pages just redirects to a page stating that the data is
> being migrated.
> When I contacted customer support Friday they stated that there was some
> maintenance going on and it would be completed Monday.
> When I called Monday they said they were aware of and working on the
> problem. No estimate this time of when it would be back.
> I am beginning to suspect the answer to that is never. I stumbled onto
> an item in an Earthlink FAQ stating that the free web space was no
> longer part of the service for new customers starting in 2018.
> They keep reducing the S in ISP.
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https://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php web page. :(
David Schultz <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> Earthlink personal web pages have been down since Thursday. I first
> noticed when the ftp server refused a connection when I tried to upload
> some new data.
> Accessing the pages just redirects to a page stating that the data is
> being migrated.
> When I contacted customer support Friday they stated that there was some
> maintenance going on and it would be completed Monday.
> When I called Monday they said they were aware of and working on the
> problem. No estimate this time of when it would be back.
> I am beginning to suspect the answer to that is never. I stumbled onto
> an item in an Earthlink FAQ stating that the free web space was no
> longer part of the service for new customers starting in 2018.
> They keep reducing the S in ISP.
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David Schultz
Mar 12, 2019, 7:42:24 PM3/12/19
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On 3/12/19 6:39 PM, Ant wrote:
> They don't even mention it in its own
> https://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php web page. :(
>
I have complained about that twice now.
> They don't even mention it in its own
> https://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php web page. :(
>
Ant
Mar 12, 2019, 9:44:28 PM3/12/19
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David Schultz <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On 3/12/19 6:39 PM, Ant wrote:
> > They don't even mention it in its own
> > https://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php web page. :(
> >
> I have complained about that twice now.
I know your frustrations since I had to deal with its usenet service in
> On 3/12/19 6:39 PM, Ant wrote:
> > They don't even mention it in its own
> > https://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php web page. :(
> >
> I have complained about that twice now.
the past. Argh.
Ant
Mar 14, 2019, 7:15:48 PM3/14/19
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Yes. I meant its third party NSP. Actually, SuperNews sold to GigaNews. ;)
Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> You do relise ant EarthLink sold its news service to GigaNews a long time
> ago:)
--
:) ?? Day!
Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> You do relise ant EarthLink sold its news service to GigaNews a long time
> ago:)
--
:) ?? Day!
Ant
Mar 14, 2019, 7:16:10 PM3/14/19
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Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> The status page is never up to date i find often you call and they say oh we
> do have an outtage etc in your area but its not on the status site:)
:(
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:) ?? Day!
> The status page is never up to date i find often you call and they say oh we
> do have an outtage etc in your area but its not on the status site:)
:(
--
:) ?? Day!
Ant
Mar 14, 2019, 8:12:34 PM3/14/19
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Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> Personal Web Space was discontinued long before 2018.
> EarthLink has in fact been sold to some new company lets see what other
> services are removed
3rd party NSP with (Super/Giga)News. I'm surprised we still have it.
Enjoy while it lasts! :(
> Personal Web Space was discontinued long before 2018.
> EarthLink has in fact been sold to some new company lets see what other
> services are removed
3rd party NSP with (Super/Giga)News. I'm surprised we still have it.
Enjoy while it lasts! :(
Ant
Mar 19, 2019, 3:08:18 PM3/19/19
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Ugh. I was thinking of downgrading my $9.95 dial-up account to e-mail
only, but then I would lose NSP access. Argh.
Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> They will keep it for legacy clients like us new subscribers don't get it at
> all.
> Make any changes to your account and you have to call them and they have to
> add your new account changes to the accepted list and you wait a week to get
> back in the news server.
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only, but then I would lose NSP access. Argh.
Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> They will keep it for legacy clients like us new subscribers don't get it at
> all.
> Make any changes to your account and you have to call them and they have to
> add your new account changes to the accepted list and you wait a week to get
> back in the news server.
--
Quote of the Week: "... Our world is not an ant farm!" --Duncan MacLeod (Highlander Season 3 Finale Part II)
David Schultz
Mar 20, 2019, 6:52:23 PM3/20/19
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Suddenly, I hate Earthlink, or their new robot overlords.
I just received an email about the website "migration". It says:
"Your personalized free website migration is complete and your site is
now only viewable. As of March 31, 2020, your personalized website will
be removed and no longer accessible. "
In other words they have terminated the web space with no warning. I
have some pages that update every day but not anymore.
Of course when I try to view my pages the server can't find them. But
that is an improvement over no connection at all.
I searched to see what options I have for an ISP and found none. There
is AT&T and Spectrum but all they do is provide an Internet connection
costing more than what I pay now. Where did all the ISPs go?
I just received an email about the website "migration". It says:
"Your personalized free website migration is complete and your site is
now only viewable. As of March 31, 2020, your personalized website will
be removed and no longer accessible. "
In other words they have terminated the web space with no warning. I
have some pages that update every day but not anymore.
Of course when I try to view my pages the server can't find them. But
that is an improvement over no connection at all.
I searched to see what options I have for an ISP and found none. There
is AT&T and Spectrum but all they do is provide an Internet connection
costing more than what I pay now. Where did all the ISPs go?
danny burstein
Mar 20, 2019, 8:42:06 PM3/20/19
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In <VoidnZYfU_O_WQ_B...@earthlink.com> David Schultz <ab...@127.0.0.1> writes:
>Suddenly, I hate Earthlink, or their new robot overlords.
>I just received an email about the website "migration". It says:
>"Your personalized free website migration is complete and your site is
>now only viewable. As of March 31, 2020, your personalized website will
>be removed and no longer accessible. "
>In other words they have terminated the web space with no warning. I
>have some pages that update every day but not anymore.
Unless you've typoed your note, they've given
>Suddenly, I hate Earthlink, or their new robot overlords.
>I just received an email about the website "migration". It says:
>"Your personalized free website migration is complete and your site is
>now only viewable. As of March 31, 2020, your personalized website will
>be removed and no longer accessible. "
>In other words they have terminated the web space with no warning. I
>have some pages that update every day but not anymore.
you a year's worth of warning.
With the discloser that I used to work there,
the very ancient (in Internet years) ISP "panix.com"
is still very much in existence.
They started off as dial up, but are now very, very,
much into the providing of back end services - including
web pages and e-mail (plus lots of other stuff), for
people coming in via other internet links. Like, oh,
a cable connection in Kansas.
They're a business and do charge. The basic fee, which
includes webpage at "panix.com/~[yourname]" is $10/month,
$100 for a prepaid year.
If you want it under your own domain, they offer that,
plus lots of other stuff, too.
Https://www.panix.com
Again, I used to work there. Still a very happy customer
(A big bunch of people formerly at Netcom moved over
to Panix when Netcom crashed. Ditto for quite a
few other ISPs)
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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
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Scott Dorsey
Mar 21, 2019, 8:04:12 AM3/21/19
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Strange, I've been hating them for the past fifteen years or so.
What took you so long?
>I searched to see what options I have for an ISP and found none. There
>is AT&T and Spectrum but all they do is provide an Internet connection
>costing more than what I pay now. Where did all the ISPs go?
When Earthlink raped the Netcom shell service and dumped all of the Netcom
customers abruptly after lying to them for a year or so, a lot of the
folks moved to Panix and to Eskimo. I cannot say anything about Eskimo
but I am a Panix customer and have nothing but good things to say about
them.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
What took you so long?
>I searched to see what options I have for an ISP and found none. There
>is AT&T and Spectrum but all they do is provide an Internet connection
>costing more than what I pay now. Where did all the ISPs go?
customers abruptly after lying to them for a year or so, a lot of the
folks moved to Panix and to Eskimo. I cannot say anything about Eskimo
but I am a Panix customer and have nothing but good things to say about
them.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
Ant
Mar 21, 2019, 5:51:34 PM3/21/19
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Andy <N...@n.com> wrote:
> That is correct Ant.
> I forgot to update my card i pay for EarthLink with and lost access for a
> week due to some rule that they had to re add my account to the accepted
> list for news server access.
You got lucky. I wonder how long ELN will keep its third party NSP
option for us. If they ever drop it, no more ELN for me.
> That is correct Ant.
> I forgot to update my card i pay for EarthLink with and lost access for a
> week due to some rule that they had to re add my account to the accepted
> list for news server access.
You got lucky. I wonder how long ELN will keep its third party NSP
option for us. If they ever drop it, no more ELN for me.
David Schultz
Mar 21, 2019, 7:16:19 PM3/21/19
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On 3/21/19 12:42 AM, Andy wrote:
> The part that says starting in 2020 you will lose access IS your warning
> over 9 months warning.
You have a funny idea of what constitutes a warning. I have not had FTP
access since 7 March and it will not be returning.
> Most other ISP'S have dropped news access
How did news get into this?
--
http://home.earthlink.net/~david.schultz
(Web pages available until March 2020, maybe, but will never be updated
again.
Thanks Earthlink.)
> The part that says starting in 2020 you will lose access IS your warning
> over 9 months warning.
You have a funny idea of what constitutes a warning. I have not had FTP
access since 7 March and it will not be returning.
> Most other ISP'S have dropped news access
How did news get into this?
--
http://home.earthlink.net/~david.schultz
(Web pages available until March 2020, maybe, but will never be updated
again.
Thanks Earthlink.)
David Schultz
Mar 21, 2019, 7:17:08 PM3/21/19
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On 3/21/19 7:04 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> David Schultz <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> Suddenly, I hate Earthlink, or their new robot overlords.
>
> Strange, I've been hating them for the past fifteen years or so.
> What took you so long?
>
I was occasionally displeased but this pushed me over the edge.
> David Schultz <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>> Suddenly, I hate Earthlink, or their new robot overlords.
>
> Strange, I've been hating them for the past fifteen years or so.
> What took you so long?
>
>> I searched to see what options I have for an ISP and found none. There
>> is AT&T and Spectrum but all they do is provide an Internet connection
>> costing more than what I pay now. Where did all the ISPs go?
>
> When Earthlink raped the Netcom shell service and dumped all of the Netcom
> customers abruptly after lying to them for a year or so, a lot of the
> folks moved to Panix and to Eskimo. I cannot say anything about Eskimo
> but I am a Panix customer and have nothing but good things to say about
> them.
anything resembling high speed access. Did I miss it?
David Schultz
Mar 27, 2019, 7:11:33 PM3/27/19
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On 3/26/19 2:41 AM, Andy wrote:
> MY mistake but i can FTP in to my web site files no problem.
>
>
This is what I am getting:
$ ftp ftp-www.earthlink.net
Trying 209.86.60.23...
ftp: connect to address 209.86.60.23Connection timed out
Trying 209.86.60.22...
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> quit
I received another copy of the email claiming that the migration was
complete today. Yet I still can't see my pages. Results vary. Sometimes
I get an Earthlink page saying the page couldn't be found and sometimes
Firefox can't connect.
I tried something different today and I think I know part of what went
wrong. It appears that sometime since the 7th when I tried to access
some pages the Earthlink server threw up a bogus 301 "Permanently moved"
error. Browsers remember that and take the permanently part seriously.
But since the redirect happens out of sight, you never know about it.
Normally used to switch http to https.
in Firefox you can clear that by right clicking on the entry in history
and selecting "Forget about this site". That cleared up the failure to
connect errors but not the page not found errors.
I also received a phone message today from "Executive Relations"
(apparently a title with zero authority) claiming that they found that
my data at ~david.schultz was corrupted with malware or viruses and
would never be restored. (Even the HTML?) Which means that they took the
word of some useless virus scanner. I consider it equally likely that
they just lost the data and settled on this excuse to cover their asses.
--
https://web.archive.org/web/20190214181851/http://home.earthlink.net/~david.schultz/
(Web pages available only at the Wayback Machine because Earthlink
terminated that service.)
> MY mistake but i can FTP in to my web site files no problem.
>
>
This is what I am getting:
$ ftp ftp-www.earthlink.net
Trying 209.86.60.23...
ftp: connect to address 209.86.60.23Connection timed out
Trying 209.86.60.22...
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp> quit
I received another copy of the email claiming that the migration was
complete today. Yet I still can't see my pages. Results vary. Sometimes
I get an Earthlink page saying the page couldn't be found and sometimes
Firefox can't connect.
I tried something different today and I think I know part of what went
wrong. It appears that sometime since the 7th when I tried to access
some pages the Earthlink server threw up a bogus 301 "Permanently moved"
error. Browsers remember that and take the permanently part seriously.
But since the redirect happens out of sight, you never know about it.
Normally used to switch http to https.
in Firefox you can clear that by right clicking on the entry in history
and selecting "Forget about this site". That cleared up the failure to
connect errors but not the page not found errors.
I also received a phone message today from "Executive Relations"
(apparently a title with zero authority) claiming that they found that
my data at ~david.schultz was corrupted with malware or viruses and
would never be restored. (Even the HTML?) Which means that they took the
word of some useless virus scanner. I consider it equally likely that
they just lost the data and settled on this excuse to cover their asses.
--
https://web.archive.org/web/20190214181851/http://home.earthlink.net/~david.schultz/
(Web pages available only at the Wayback Machine because Earthlink
terminated that service.)
Ant
Mar 27, 2019, 8:33:59 PM3/27/19
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David Schultz <ab...@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> On 3/26/19 2:41 AM, Andy wrote:
> > MY mistake but i can FTP in to my web site files no problem.
> >
> >
> This is what I am getting:
> $ ftp ftp-www.earthlink.net
> Trying 209.86.60.23...
> ftp: connect to address 209.86.60.23Connection timed out
> Trying 209.86.60.22...
> ftp: connect: Connection refused
> ftp> quit
Same for me from 2 different non-ELN ISPs:
> On 3/26/19 2:41 AM, Andy wrote:
> > MY mistake but i can FTP in to my web site files no problem.
> >
> >
> This is what I am getting:
> $ ftp ftp-www.earthlink.net
> Trying 209.86.60.23...
> ftp: connect to address 209.86.60.23Connection timed out
> Trying 209.86.60.22...
> ftp: connect: Connection refused
> ftp> quit
$ ftp
ftp> open ftp-www.earthlink.net
ftp: connect to address 209.86.60.22: Connection refused
Trying 209.86.60.23...
$ ftp ftp-www.earthlink.net
Trying 209.86.60.22...
ftp: connect to address 209.86.60.22Connection refused
Trying 209.86.60.23...
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the prophets was taking a rest underneath a tree, an ant bit him. He,
therefore, ordered that his luggage be taken away from underneath that
tree and then ordered that the dwelling place of the ants should be set
on fire. Allah sent him a revelation: 'Wouldn't it have been sufficient
to burn a single ant (that bit you)?'" --Translation of Sahih Bukhari,
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