Hi, all. John sent this to the news mailing list... in a nutshell, the ISP that powered FreeLists since they moved to the new location was shut down today without warning. They are back to the old network until a new solution can be found. The complete message can be found below. Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Madden" <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <freelists-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:22 PM Subject: [Freelists News] Atlink DSL goes under, FreeLists goes with it > === > - The FreeLists Newsletter - > You're receiving this email because you are subscribed > to the FreeLists Newsletter, a newsletter sent out to all > FreeLists list owners. It contains important updates about > changes to FreeLists services. For subscription information, > please see the bottom of this email. > Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > === > > > ...but we're back. > > What follows is the "word on the street," so do take this with a grain of > salt. I just want everyone out there to know what I know: Atlink, a major > mid-west DSL provider is going out of business, and today closed offices > and laid off their employees in Indianapolis (where FreeLists is/was > hosted). According to one unofficial report, Atlink's upstream service > providers pulled the plug on their circuits, effectively taking them off > the map. This is all a result, supposedly, of a major Indianapolis > customer going bankrupt, leaving Atlink short several million dollars. > Check the tech news tomorrow and Friday - official confirmation of this > should be coming out eventually. > > Obviously, this had some negative effects on our services. We experienced > about a 4-hour outage while I fought back and forth on the phone with our > ISP (who has been quite helpful through this), and other local networking > companies, trying to come up with another solution. The quickest > resolution was to move FreeLists back to its old network, so we put that > into effect. > > Basically, that puts us back where we were last Friday, before moving to > our "new network," which today was essentially ripped out from under us. > Along with the move goes the secondary downtime of waiting for DNS records > to update, which should be done by tomorrow morning for most. > > We are currently exploring other networking avenues -- we're obviously a > bit hesitant to go with DSL again, but it has served us well in the past, > and considering the cost of other solutions, we may have to use it again. > FreeLists will continue to run, we'll find a way to keep it going. On the > slate right now are DSL solutions from 2CoolWeb/Covant and a > fractional/full T1 from our current "new network" ISP. If anyone has any > other suggestions or ideas, we're open to them! > > Please bear with us while things get sorted out. This ordeal was as much > of a surprise to us as anyone, so there was little to do but ride out the > storm. If anyone has any questions or concerns, please feel free to voice > them on freelists-users or to me directly. > > Thanks, > John > > > - FreeLists Staff > > > ======================= > The FreeLists Newsletter > > Keeping you in touch with the lastest FreeLists news > - For subscription info and list modes, please see: > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi > - List webpage: > //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/webpage?webpage_id=40 > - Administrative contact: > weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > ======================= > > ----- To unsubscribe, send a message to win2kforum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and put "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. To reach the administrator(s), send a message to win2kforum-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx