Re[2]: [cobalt-users] Vendor's Stick Together?

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Hello Jeff,

here  is  something funnier, i had to go to google and see what a ARIN
is!   and  you  know what i still don't know - i think it lets me hand
out ip's - who wants one i have bunches.

you  may all be relived to know that you guys back here in the factory
beating  me up has convinced me to promote myself to cfo and so i have
determined  that  while i maybe a trading wiz i am not a raq wiz or t1
wiz  so  i  have  hired an un named vendor right here off this list to
help  me.   so  all my discussions from now on will be strictly from a
curiosity  stand  point, i hope.  however i might get in a bind - play
on  words ;-)

about the dependability of those so called mass storage places ect.
they are a farce, they all have these little savvis 500.00 a month
t1's and claim they are on the backbone of some oc proportion. bunk
they are "mostly" all wannbe's i could afford anything without
compromise i wanted. i live in a semi industrial area and can get
practically anything from 3 phase power, to any! flavor of net
connections and i have had them all in the past. many many major isp's
i have done business with and it took me years to figure this all out.

if  you  are further than 12,000 feet from a main switch building they
have  to put line boosters on you and if anyone of those boosters gets
hot  during  the  summer  or  cold  during  the  winter.   guess what?
practically  no  isp  fully  understands  what  it  is  to  be mission
critical.

tell  what  good it does to have security and multiple sources and all
that  crud and then have some 20 year old pot head or some 40 year old
ones  either  back  there  yanking  out  cables past midnight cause he
thinks  no  one will no any better by morning?  but i can tell you the
second he pulls the plug and guess what they all do it. the difference
is  that  some don't know they didn't get it plugged back in until the
phone  call  i  make  to them when they show up for work about an hour
after  they  claim  they  normally  open  for  business.  i'll take my
chances  with  being  dumb,  but  setting right on top of my equipment
24/7.   my  plan  is to have 5 t1's by the end of this year 3 here and
one  on  east coast and one on west coast will be up by last of march.
we have some software that will do auto failover.

it's simply a case of a customer being done so wrong that he is taking
a  stab  at doing it better than the so called experts.  maybe i can't
run a mail server, but i know when i loose my net connection and loose
money.  and i know a blame game when i hear it.

two  years ago when the chicago board of trade trusted uunet when they
claimed  they  would  provide  guaranteed  100%  up time and that they
needed  no other provider.  two weeks after they cut off their back up
uunet went down and was down for days -all because some guy configured
a  router wrong - actually it was MCI who i hate who was contracted by
uunet  to  do  the work.  even the so called giant is a wanna be.  btw
that  cost  zillion's of dollars in lost customers money that uunet is
still paying off.

ps anyway looking for a good graphic artist an web creator - a really
really (did i mention really?) good web creator if anyone knows one.

JL> flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:

>> As to humor, i do find it amusing you managed to get an ARIN whois record
>> registered when you can't get a mail server to work...

JL> I'd guess sprint did that.  They probably wanted to avoid the
JL> responsibility for it <smile>.

JL> Jeff



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