Archive for January, 2002
Thursday, January 31st, 2002
Thu Jan 31 16:33:02 PST 2002 -- We have put up a new POP in Santa Rosa to help with the busy signals on 522-1003. If you would like to help test this new capacity you can do so by changing your dialup number to 636-1001.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2002
Tue Jan 29 12:12:00 PST 2002 -- Sonic.net is pleased to announce the availability of our newest broadband Internet access product, Rooftop. Sonic.net's Rooftop service offers high speed broadband access using wireless technology from industry leader Nokia.
For full information or to place an order, please visit:
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2002
Tue Jan 29 15:27:45 PST 2002 -- We have just upgraded the beta test version of SpamAssassin to the new release of 2.1. Version 2.1 has a number of improvements over 1.5 including auto whitelisting, much better tuning of scores and new rules. You can turn SpamAssassin on with ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2002
Mon Jan 28 19:54:14 PST 2002 -- We're experiencing some busy signals on our 1003 and 9811 dialup groups. We've got new dialups numbers ending in 9606 which can be swapped one for one with the 9811 numbers if you run into busy signals. Additional capacity in the 1003 ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2002
Mon Jan 28 14:06:14 PST 2002 -- New virus in the wild: We've seen quite a bit of the new 'Myparty' virus pass through our servers early this morning and installed filters to catch it around 10:00AM. For more information please see www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.myparty@mm.html -Kelsey and Scott R.
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Friday, January 25th, 2002
Fri Jan 25 11:08:42 PST 2002 -- We have added a new local news group to our news server, 'sonic.announce'. The MOTD is now being posted there as well as on the shell servers, email list and on our website. We will also use this group to post other ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2002
Fri Jan 25 16:37:12 PST 2002 -- It has come to our attention that Network Solutions/VeriSign is sending renewal notices to the owners of recently transferred domains. These notices are being been sent via email and regular mail asking for the renewal of domain names that are no longer ...
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Thursday, January 24th, 2002
Thu Jan 24 17:39:13 PST 2002 -- We have identified the root cause of the authentication failures after a lot of head scratching and bug crushing. As it turned out the problem was not where we were focusing our attention, the RADIUS authentication servers, or cucipop, the POP3 server ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2002
Wed Jan 23 08:43:17 PST 2002 -- Shell access now requires verification of customer identity by technical support before initial use. This one-time verification is designed to prevent late night sign-ups by individuals using stolen credit cards who then use shell.sonic.net as a platform for hacking, launching denial of ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2002
Wed Jan 23 16:29:11 PST 2002 -- We are experiencing some authentication errors for customers trying to check their email. We are investigating the cause of the failure. -Matt, Russ, Scott, and Nathan
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