Re: demned elusive
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@hotpop.com)
Sun, 03 Oct 1999 22:01:13 +1000
Tim, it must be the season for computer stuff ups - I turned on my computer
today to find nothing in my 500-strong Inbox but the Thankyou For Choosing
Our Product email - which I *won't* do again if said product makes a habit
of doing this. Andy Warhol once said he liked to break something every now
and then, just to remind himself of the fragility of life. Perhaps this is
what computers were also sent to teach us - that there is still chaos that
no one can control in a world like this.
Ah well, back to `Hapworth' ...
Camille
verona_beach@hotpop.com
> > This is for Tim - there being, apparently,
> > no other way for me to contact him.
>
> Sorry to trouble the entire list with this, but I do this only because
> other senders may have received the same problem.
>
> The ISP (Internet Service Provider) I had been using announced, with a
> week's notice, that all accounts of my type, which I use to do a lot of
> work, aside from bananafish, would be discontinued.
>
> This is like having your landlord tell you that you must move out in a
> week and that you can't take your furniture along.
>
> The company that registers network names (in this case,
> "roughdraft.org") takes a long time, often, to make the underlying
> changes such that mail gets pointed in the right direction. So,
> Scotty (and anyone else who sends mail to that address) will temporarily
> get a bounce. If you send it to me at "tim.oconnor@nyu.edu" it will
> come through. Or "oconnort@nyu.edu" -- either goes to the same place.
>
> Sorry for the confusion, folks. Sometimes even the technical people are
> at the other technical people. (Something to think about the next time
> you experience a frustrating network problem. 8-)
>
> --tim o'connor