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

[Sam Carrington]

Looks like you need to get your systems looked at James, interesting

datestamp on that last mail ...


y2k problem, what y2k problem?


ehem ...


James Cronin wrote:


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

     Date: Tue, 4 Jan 100 12:36:38 +0000 (GMT)

     From: James Cronin <

jamesunfortu [dot] net

>


 > 

 > 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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