A Cox Internet Email Outage?

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Posted by Cliff on Monday May 24, 2004 @10:36AM from the if-they-won't-tell-you dept.

notthere asks: "In Florida, Cox High Speed Internet (the home service) has been having problems with out-of-network emails for almost a week, since that is the date on the latest piece of email in my Inbox. I contacted Cox tech support this morning. The first responder read a statement to the effect that 'there were some problems, and they do not know when the problems will be fixed.' When I complained and demanded some clear explanation of what the problem was and when the service would resume, she said 'Cox HSI is an entertainment service, so we do not guarantee service. If you want to talk to our people in the business division, I'll be glad to give you their phone number.' I then asked to talk to a manager, who was certainly nicer (he apologized), but offered no answer or projection as to what the problem is and when it will be fixed. Interestingly, the Cox support web page reports no outages." If you use Cox's Internet service, have you recently had trouble connecting to your mail servers?

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Re:Never heard of it by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-24 10:55 · Score: -1, Offtopic

How clever!
Newsflash: Porn Page with Hot Mamas offline by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-24 11:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

George Sansdiski (42), an out of work tech support manager was browsing the internet this morning for his favorite website Biker Chicks vs Mormon Missionaries and was shocked to discover that none of the URLs to their Free Pr0n worked anymore. Not to be distracted by this, or waste precious hand lotion that would he have to buy at the store where that cute girl works and he can never quite get up the nerve to put a bottle of it in the shopping basket with bachelor meals and cheap domestic beer in multiples of 12 for fear of being embarrased by complete strangers because they are the opposite sex... Wooo, need sip of beer. Ok.
He boldly engaged his new favorite pr0n search tool typing in biker mormon to no avail he screamed out loud, "AHHHHHH". Suddenly hearing in reply, " Keep it down in there your mother is trying to sleep off last night's booze" "Sorry mom, I will", he meekly answered and than continued with "You Bitch," under his breath in clever retort. Deciding he was going to have to try something else to get off he tried something desperate. He would have to use his imagination and find pictures of women that were not nekid at all. LIGHTNING SOUND, w/ PIPE ORGAN Using the built up imagery of thousands of man hours spent looking at pr0n over a lonely lifetime George was going to land of make believe, to dance the fairy dance, and kiss the moon sun and sky. Oh yeah, its alive! Got to keep going!
He fist went to Match.com finding few biker chicks or mormons or answers to the long mails he had sent to every woman in a 250 mile radius, so he went onward to Yahoo Personals and finnaly found the resource he was looking for. 10,000's of women all smiling for him, oh yes it was him. The door behind pounded 3 times in quick succession "Stop banging the computer desk aginst the wall when you are wacking off George, your mom has a fucking hangover"
1. Re:Newsflash: Porn Page with Hot Mamas offline by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-24 11:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  That is about the end all and be all of this story. Is this from a website or orginal? It is pretty funny.
Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-24 11:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fag.
Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-24 11:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Yeah, gee, nobody knows who YOU are. Chicken shit.
Re:Never heard of it by Anonvmous+Coward · 2004-05-24 11:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"WTF are you smoking? Cox == Cox Cable, one of the largest cable companies in North America."

And with a clever edit...

"WTF are you smoking? Cox..."