[KOREAN-WAR-L:11328] Re: email address change - off topic

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

Ed,

You might want to check out this article.  

I would hate for the company that manages your domain
name to send an email reminder of expiration to your
old email address and see you go off the net like the
Washington Post did.

Mike D

Friday, February 6, 2004 
  
Oops at Post shuts down E-mail 
The Washington Post E-mail system went dark Thursday
after the company let its domain name expire, a
shocking mistake for the company that considers its
Internet operation the best in the biz. In a memo to
staffers, Managing Editor Steven Coll revealed that
Network Solutions, which manages Internet addresses,
"apparently notified the Post of the pending
expiration via a drop-box that was not being
monitored."

Spokesman Eric Grant said once the company figured out
the glitch, a call was made to Network Solutions to
renew the domain and the system was slowly put back on
line. It?s expected to be fully operational by Friday.

Staffers said the crash?which came as deadline
approached?sent the news desks into a tizzy. It was
especially hard on Style, Metro, and National desks,
which rely on E-mail reporting, and the photo
department, which receives digital pictures from
photographers via email.

Read Coll?s memo:

"Early this morning, the domain name washpost.com
expired. Network Solutions, which manages Internet
addresses, apparently notified the Post of the pending
expiration via a drop-box that was not being
monitored. The domain name has now been restored, but
it will take an unknown period of time?at least a few
hours?to propogate [sic] across the network. In the
meantime all external E-mail has been disrupted and
external senders are receiving delivery failure
notices.

While this problem persists, it is possible to access
the Post's VPN network via the Internet by typing in
the direct IP address of a network server. . .We'll
keep you updated as we learn more. COLLS."
 
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/whispers/whisphome.htm




--- Mike Yared <mikeyared@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The North Koreans practicing information warfare -
> offensive as always unlike defensive.
> 
> Mike
> 
> --- Ed Evanhoe <evanhoe2@korean-war.com> wrote:
> > At 10:20 AM 2/5/2004, you wrote:
> > >Ed.
> > >You must be just really popular...hehe
> > 
> > Must be, Dan.  Or else someone doesn't like
> factual
> > history on the web 
> > since this was also the contact address post on
> > KOREAN-WAR.COM.  My web 
> > host (SBC) tells me someone keeps trying to hack
> the
> > site.
> > 
> > Ed 
> > 
> 
> 
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