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Thousands of AOL UK users lose connection
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:29:22 GMT
Ken Young writes on vnunet.com: [snip] Thousands of UK AOL subscribers lost broadband connectivity earlier this week as a result of a faulty network fix sent out by the firm as part of a broadband upgrade. AOL sent pop-ups to 50,000 subscribers which when clicked on disabled their connections. AOL admitted that around half of its subscribers lost connection. The pop-up announced: "We are conducting a network upgrade and need you to adapt your settings." It then offered a series of options. Those who clicked on the pop-up lost their connections and were unable to reconnect. As a result thousands of subscribers besieged the AOL helpdesk. [snip] http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2142728/thousands-aol-users-lose - ferg p.s. ....and a 3.6 quake hits L.A, area this morning: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/california.quakes.ap/index.html But that's just a small one. :-) -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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