Midcoast Internet Solutions

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News & Notices

April 1999

• April 30, 1999 10:00am. SMTP mail services at lincoln.midcoast.com were inoperative for several hours Friday morning as a result time mismatch, after a 3am backup/reboot of lincoln. All incoming mail was spooled for delivery by remote or local mail servers and will be despooling over the next few hours until midday.
• April 29, 1999 3:00pm. Setup of 3 new lines for Liberty were completed.
• April 28, 1999 9:00am. Jason Philbrook attended a public hearing in Augusta regarding LD2155 which studies issues facilitating electronic commerce, consumer privacy, unsolicited bulk email / spamming, hate mail, and pornography. Jason spoke in favor of propositions to encourage high-tech business development, and in favor of rules against spamming. Another ISP in attendance also recommended Jason to be part of an appointed commision to make sure internet users and businesses are properly represented.
  Rules against spam would prevent Maine from being a source of spam email. There is a popular state-by-state trend to restrict spam, causing the market for such undesireable email to shrink or move elsewhere.
• April 25, 1999 3:30pm. The virtual webserver host "sumatra" was rebooted after about 500 days of continuous service. This took about 5 minutes.
• April 23, 1999 Damariscotta - 1:00am. All the active modem connections disconnected at the same time with a resounding set of clicks. An inquiry will be made to the telco to determine the source.
• April 21, 1999 Northland will be installing some additional lines on the 27th for the 589-3380 Liberty access number.
• April 21, 1999 People who use 785-6123 (the original Union number) should change to the newer Union number which is 785-6622. You will have to log in with your full email address (someone@midcoast.com) instead of just your username. Alternately, if you have the enhanced calling, you can call a Rockland number.
• April 21, 1999 The peering link to/from gwi.net was down from 3am thru 10am due to a configuration change at GWI. Mail and web traffic didn't flow during this time. All mail to/from gwi.net was spooled and will be delivered within a few hours. The GWI web server has been down as well. No other info was available.
• April 20, 1999 593-9397 is offically open for business as a new V.90 number. (for people that can call Rockland without a toll, of course) If your modem does not cooperate with the 593-9332 or the 593-8000 after you've updated it to the newest code and followed our V90 tips, feel free to use this number. It goes into a different brand of equipment than the other numbers. If this number works better than the other number, use it.
  The 9332/8000 numbers work well for most people, but we've had a few people who could not get a good connection on the new V90 equipment, so we've gone ahead and added a different manufacturer's equipment hoping to assist customers with modem interoperability issues. We are the only ISP with three different brands of modem banks in the Rockland area.
• April 19, 1999 An error with the time machine between April 17 and 19 has been corrected. Certain modem servers' logs had not been cleared. This has been corrected.
• April 17, 1999 9:00am through most of the day The Linux Installfest will be at our 25 Oak Street office instead of the training center. Appropriate signage will be at both locations to direct people to the proper facility.
• April 17, 1999 9:00am to late afternoon. MELUG Linux Installfest at the Midcoast Computer Training Center. This is an opportunity to get Linux going with a little help from some friends. Trust me, this is the only way to get started with Linux. Follow the link below for details, and what to bring. It's an all day event, so stop in as your schedule permits. April InstallFest
• April 13, 1999 2:50pm. We have a new V.90 access server for testing. The number is 593-9397. (please be sure to type in the number correctly) This is 46 new V.90 lines using a different brand of equipment than the other lines. It may work better for some people, and worse or no difference for others.
• April 13, 1999 8:00am. Some people report not being able to surf outside of the midcoast. We are investigating this at the very moment. Update. Seems better about 9:00am. We are told that this is due to a problem which was on an MCI connection between Portland and Boston, and MCI is working on it.
• April 8, 1999 Who is on the modems has been updated to show additioanal V90 information.

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