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

[Steve Johnston]

I think you Virgin employees (Chris and Stef) should declare your interest more transparently when responding to such comments. I don't doubt your motives, but given the positions you both hold, I believe that subscribers to UKNM deserve this small consideration.


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On 04/01/00, at 10:15, chris  wrote: 


 >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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