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

[James Cronin]

Wotcha,


 > 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

 > . . .


Sounds like quite a good idea to me really. Tragic though the loss of a

customer who's trying to shop at a minute past midnight (probably purely

to see if it'll break or not) it's probably in the best interests of the

consumer body as a whole to shut the site down in case anything did go

terrible 'orrible.


(That and all the sysadmins were pissed)


James.

xx



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