Patrick: We can Help in Dallas in the Infomart, I will give the NOC a call. Jeff Smith President Verio Texas At 01:38 AM 8/13/98 -0700, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
At 11:42 PM 8/12/98 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
I had heard this through several sources and on a couple of lists today as well.
You'd be surprised how many people I heard it from. :)
Unfortunately, the rumor is correct, Priori is in bad shape and will likely not continue as a viable business. :( The article was ... not entirely correct, but close enough not to quibble. We have not filed for bankruptcy, but the chances are high enough that I'm not willing to risk my downstream's continued existence on ours.
I'd like to add some facts to stop the rampant rumors:
* Priori has not filed for bankruptcy, but likely will Friday or Monday barring a miracle. * I turned off our web page. * The backbone is running and has a high likelihood of continuing to run until at least 3 PM PDT, Friday, 8/14, 1998. After that, I do not know. * The employees are all laid off. (I'm technically unemployed - so I can't be speaking for "the company"! ;) * All customers have been notified.
Sorry to be feasting on dead bodies, but keeping people online is more important than netiquette right now.
I COMPLETELY agree, and I am currently working for free to get our customers moved. I do appreciate any offers of assistance to get my friends and customers "on net" ASAP. I currently have problems in the Denver, Dallas and Boston markets. I believe I have secured at least temporary transit for all customers in all other cities. There isn't a whole lot of bandwidth necessary, but getting a loop in days is, as we all know, nearly impossible. If someone in our collocation facilities could keep them up, even sub-optimally, even temporarily, I would greatly appreciate it and donate my engineering time to do whatever was necessary to get it done.
Here are my POP locations:
Boston 10 Second Avenue Waltham, MA 02154 781-672 Two DS1s
Dallas The "Infomart" 1950 Stemmons Freeway Dallas, TX 75207 214-760 One DS1
Denver 8765 West Orchard Drive Englewood, CO 90017 303-221 One 6 Mbps fractional DS3
All are MFS owned POPs facilities.
Even if you are not in those locations, but close or think you can rig something for the customers, I'd love to hear from you. Please call the NOC line 888-477-7662 and ask for Patrick. Thank you.
Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin
TTFN, patrick
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