Midcoast Internet Solutions

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News & Notices

June 2001

• June 27, 2001 5:30pm. The Sell & Swap BBS and the Biznet Bulletin Board have been upgraded to a newer version of the BBS software. This will show the IP address of the poster. This will help us and customers identify spammers or people with illegitimate posts easily. This information (the IP address) is not and hasn't been secret in the past, just more difficult to find (not on the post).
• June 26, 2001 Some people using the 589-3003 number in Liberty had trouble logging in for a while this morning. We reset the equipment there and things have been fine since.
• June 21, 2001 Sprint is having trouble in the Northeast. (A major failure in NY where lots of ISPs connect to) From about 8:00pm to 9:30, a minority of dialup customers were not able to get outside of midcoast.com. The Sprint problem has not been corrected, but I have rerouted our Sprint traffic over one of our ATT links with our new BGP setup. Next time Sprint fails, the transfer will be automatic.
• June 20, 2001 The T1 that services Wiscasset, Boothbay, Edgecomb, Bath and Brunswick Dialup Numbers needed to be reset this morning. This caused people in those areas not to be able to connect to our servers from around 4:00am to 8:00am.
• June 17, 2001 We have activated a function on our mail server which will delete any mail from the server which is 90 days or older. Please download your mail regularly and do not use "leave mail on server" if it is not necessary.
• June 17, 2001 10:00am The Union POP had a power outage last night that outlasted our battery backup. Power has been restored and everthing is up again.
• June 15, 2001 A new newsletter has been published. Here is a link to it.
• June 14, 2001 Rockland's Planning Board and ZBA has approved a datacenter plan for Midcoast Internet Solutions. This will permit increased growth and reliability of MIS. A link to our datacenter project is here.

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