@Home ordered to shutdown at Midnight
Judge Thomas Carlson ordered Excite@Home to shutdown as of Midnight Eastern time, tonight Friday November 30 2001. Bondholders are free to negotiate a better offer before the shutdown, if they can, to maintain the service.
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:18:15 -0500 (EST) From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Judge Thomas Carlson ordered Excite@Home to shutdown as of Midnight Eastern time, tonight Friday November 30 2001.
Bondholders are free to negotiate a better offer before the shutdown, if they can, to maintain the service.
Odd. The cnet story is in direct conflict with this. It says: Judge Thomas Carlson didn't rule on whether the service would be shut down, but the cable companies have threatened to cut off service if the contracts were terminated. There was no immediate word from the cable companies Friday about whether they would end service. But Carlson said that "flipping the switch and shutting off service" was highly unlikely. The story was posted at 12:35 PT at: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1004-200-8031722.html?tag=lthd Based on history, I would be prone to believe Sean, but I'm waiting for more information. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Sean Donelan wrote: Upside: that should cut down the size of the some of the botnets :-) -Hank
Judge Thomas Carlson ordered Excite@Home to shutdown as of Midnight Eastern time, tonight Friday November 30 2001.
Bondholders are free to negotiate a better offer before the shutdown, if they can, to maintain the service.
In other news, I just got (09:20 PST in Sunnyvale California) an automated computerized call from AT&T telling me that my cable internet service is down and that they are working at getting an alternate source of IP connectivity (some time next week) They promised for two days of credit for each day I am down (like I really care about the $10 or so it is going to save me, but it's better than PB which only offered me 1 day for each day I was down) I guess this is the reason why I also have 3 DSL lines :-) Marc -- Microsoft is to operating systems & security .... .... what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | Finger marc_f@merlins.org for PGP key
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