Re: UKNM: Virgin mobile Web site closed over the New Year.

[chris]

At 09:22 04/01/00 -0000, you wrote:

 >Anyone else notice that despite all the Virgin Mobile adverts in the

 >nationals  pre-New Year and also on New Year Day, the Web site was closed

 >down saying they will be back after the New Year!

 >

 >Is this the shape of things to come?  What is the point of heavily promoting

 >a URL in adverts and then when someone wishes to go there to buy or set

 >things up, there is no site.


To be fair to the Virgin Mobile team, and the other Virgin Companies that

had a denial of service, it looks as if the servers chez Virgin were shut

down over the Y2K period as a precautionary measure.  


A stupid thing to do retrospectively, but I'm sure someone at Virgin

Management IT had a very good reason to make that decision, and I doubt it

made him/her very popular with the Virgin Group companies, but there you go

. . .


chris. 



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