[CLUE-Talk] AmericanISP

[Dennis J Perkins]

> * Dennis J Perkins (djperkins at americanisp.net) wrote:
> > How many people on this list use AmericanISP?  How soon did you notice 
problems 
> > getting email?  I couldn't get mine since about 6:30AM on Tuesday, but my 
> > sister could still get hers until sometime Wednesday.  I could still send 
email 
> > for a time, but eventually that stopped too.
> > 
> > The ISP wouldn't answer the phone, or respond to voice and email messages.  
> > They finally responded last night with the claim that they have  been hit 
by an 
> > email DOS attack, and that their staff was overwhelmed.  They could have 
posted 
> > a message on their web page, which has remained accessible throughout.
> > 
> > If this was a DOS attack, why could I send email for a while?  Why could my 
> > sister get email when I could not?
> > 
> 
> i heard that this wasn't a dos attack, but an isp that was about to close
> shop!
> 
> dan

I've had my suspicions about that too, especially when they wouldn't respond to 
calls or email and their website didn't post any news about this until Friday 
morning.  The website has kept working during this, by the way.

Another possibility is that they don't know or no longer know how to keep their 
systems running.


Things haven't been the same since they changed locations in August.  DSL 
customers were forced to reroute thru Prolynx temporarily.  Like most temporary 
things, this is still going
on.