buzzkill

[jazzfish]

From my mail provider's News page (which mostly lists service outages and causes thereof): "This morning, there was a connectivity issue with our ISP, then later the surge in traffic following restoration of connectivity caused some services to limp along until one tripped and fell over on its nose. The rest of the services pointed and laughed and so got little work done until somebody yelled at them and threatened them with violence."

This is the same company whose note for a power outage some years ago consisted of "We don't buy that brand of UPS anymore."

It's a small operation, it goes down once or twice a year, it has an occasionally overzealous spam filter, and due to a bug in Squirrelmail I can't (easily) send main that contains equals signs. On the other hand, it's not making a deliberate effort to put me in contact with people I don't want to be in contact with.

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Of all the ISP outage explanations I've ever read, that's certainly one of them.

[jazzfish]

I may be frustrated by the lack of email all morning, but I can at least count on a grin when it /does/ come back.

Nice.

[stormking.livejournal.com]

This seems like someone there has an excellent sense of humor. I totally approve.