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I am not sure what you are speaking about but I suspect you received a
message saying you had been unsubscribed because of too many "bounces",
non deliverable messages. Correct?
Well, that is an automated message and the unsubscription mechanism is
part of the list server software. It is set very liberally currently
but must be set at something. The automated server software sent the
message because it doesn't know why the messages bounced, they just
bounced. I am sorry it happened but there is not much one can do when
you use automated mechanisms.
You are welcome to subscribe again. It will let you back on. I was
unsubscribed from 3 lists this morning due to the same InterNic problem.
Today, WorldCom, one of the largest trunk line providers lost a large
number of their lines back east so you may not even get this message.
Equis Support
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Barry [SMTP:tombarry@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 1997 2:35 PM
> To: metastock-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Rude Deletion Note
>
> Next time you delete and unsubscribe people, maybe you should take
> your time and look around a bit.
>
> Read the following ;
> Tom Barry
>
>
> Software, Human Error, Cause Internet Users Woes
>
> By Therese Poletti
>
> NEW YORK - A software glitch followed by a human error at Network
> Solutions Inc., the company that is the exclusive
> registrar for the most popular Internet domain names, caused some Net
> users sporadic problems Thursday.
>
> The problem was discovered at 2:30 a.m. EDT by Network Solutions and
> was
> fixed four hours later at 6:30 a.m. EDT -- but it
> lingered all day, preventing some users from accessing certain Web
> sites
> and snarling e-mail traffic.
>
> Network Solutions, a private company in Herndon, Va., has exclusive
> rights to register all Internet addresses with domain
> names ending in .com", .gov", .org" and .net".
>
> It was as if the phone book stopped working," said Michael O'Dell,
> vice
> president and chief scientist at major Internet service
> provider UUNET Technologies Inc, now owned by WorldCom Inc. If
> directory
> assistance isn't working and you don't have a
> phone book, then the phone isn't very useful."
>
> A spokeswoman for Network Solutions said a failure in a company
> database
> occurred early Thursday morning when a new set
> of files were being loaded into the system.
>
> The database failure resulted in two files being corrupted. The files,
> which a computer system administrator mistakenly
> released, resulted in error messages popping up when users tried to
> access certain Web sites whose addresses end in .com.
> " Many commercial Web sites have .com" addresses.
>
> The Network Solutions directory of Internet domain names, also called
> InterNIC, finds the actual servers where a particular
> Web site is located.
>
> Some Internet users did not have a hard time accessing sites or data
> because if a Web site had been visited very recently, its
> address and the path traveled to reach it were still in the temporary
> memory of either their Internet service provider or users'
> corporate or individual network computers.
>
> Thursday's problem came just a day after a cut in a fiber optic line
> disrupted some Internet traffic between Washington and
> Baltimore for about six hours, industry executives said.
>
> The incident, which affected the trunk, or backbone" line of major
> service provider UUNET, led to spotty outages and
> sluggishness, and Internet traffic was rerouted.
>
> A WorldCom spokeswoman said work on a railroad line between the
> capital
> and Baltimore caused the cut in its fiber optic
> line.
>
> Earlier this month, Network Solutions filed for an initial public
> offering of its stock. The company has been the subject of great
> controversy in the industry because of its virtual monopoly to
> register
> Internet addresses. It recently received a request for
> documents from the U.S. Justice Department, which is looking into
> competition in the Internet address registration business.
>
> Copyright, Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved
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