On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 08:00, Kay, Richard wrote: > More email retrieval problems with Telstra BigPond last night. Two > nights in a row! This was posted on the Service Status page: "We are > currently looking into possible problems with BigPond Mail. Customers > with usernames R(a-i)& O(a-z) are experiencing problems retrieving > mail. Technician are treating this issue as priority and are working > on the problem". Anyone else affected ... or have the Gods conspired > to just make my life a misery?
I'm guessing that your Bigpond username also starts with an R. Bigpond have spread their email userload by letters of the alphabet. If the server with your name on it is broken, you can't get your mail. So the message that you got is what is happening, and that is why you likely cannot get mail. If your Bigpond account does not start with R, it is entirely possible that Bigpond's status page is lagging behind and that your server is still affected. You need to realise that there is a lot of extra mail floating around because of the latest Worm. <rant> Your first call with problems like this IMHO should not be this list, but your ISP support line. If you don't get joy, change ISP. If this doesn't make sense to you, imagine sending an email to WAMUG every time your tap leaks... </rant> Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18" - E128:45'05" (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
