Mindspring Buys Netcom

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Posted by CowboyNeal on Wednesday January 6, 1999 @10:41PM from the isps-on-the-move dept.

Robotech_Master writes "There's an article on MSNBC about Mindspring's acquisition." I find it interesting that Netcom will still hold on to some networks, and are basically only selling their customer base.

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Lets hope they have a good abuse team... by strredwolf · 1999-01-06 22:50 · Score: 1

Netcom's been sighted for using an abuse "pui" bot that "tries" to understand headers, and fails miserablly to detect faked headers. Let's hope Mindspring can gather a white hat with their abuse department.

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Lets hope they have a good abuse team... by strredwolf · 1999-01-07 01:35 · Score: 1

Do it, it's worth at least releasing it to the public. Announce it to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet.

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fast /.ers by tlewis · 1999-01-06 23:00 · Score: 1

Yes, but we all work for MindSpring!
Oh yeah, and the stock has been up past 93 today. by tlewis · 1999-01-06 23:09 · Score: 1

Scott, I know for a fact that you do have work
to do. Don't make me come down there.

Plus, it's bad form to brag.
Ok, we thoroughly rock now. by Black+Rose · 1999-01-06 23:11 · Score: 1

I love working for this company.
More MindSpringer's than me read /.? wow. :) I thought I was the only one. I'm certainly the only one on my team that's heard of them. Maybe we need to talk. ;)

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Just wish Mindspring would fix their Atlanta probs by Black+Rose · 1999-01-07 00:22 · Score: 1

Its a constant in Atlanta... getting "circuts are busy" or failed connects. That and their use of buggy 3COM Total Control racks that drop UDP packets so consistently that at prime time its quite possible to see 100% packet loss.
Two words for ya son : Telco Issues
MindSpring (and most ISP's) have had major issues with the Baby Bells (BellSouth, Bell Atlantic, PacBell, etc), ESPECIALLY the ones that also provice internet access (i.e. BellSouth.Net)
Operator messages and fast busy signals are Telephone Company problems, not ISP issues. Bitch at the phone company.
And as for UDP packets, you're just having bad luck. I can play StarCraft on battle.net with the best of them, with no packet loss whatsoever.
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Lets hope they have a good abuse team... by Black+Rose · 1999-01-07 00:26 · Score: 1

Netcom's been sighted for using an abuse "pui" bot that "tries" to understand headers, and fails miserablly to detect faked headers. Let's hope Mindspring can gather a white hat with their abuse department.
We're working on it. Our Spaminator (tm) gets most of the spam that hits our servers, and we're adding more and more spammers to it every day.
It's not perfect, but it's better than NetCom's.

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Lets hope they have a good abuse team... by Black+Rose · 1999-01-07 06:21 · Score: 1

I've never heard of any other ISP going to the level that we go to to stop spam. We have the spaminator, we contact the originating ISP's we disconnect our own customers if we catch them in progress, and we null route addresses that are in the process of trying to send us spam. Look for some new and exciting highly advanced stuff soon.
Like the customizable Spaminator that lets people filter out spam email that get through the defaults? :)

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Just wish Mindspring would fix their Atlanta probs by cholko · 1999-01-06 23:47 · Score: 1

Sorry, seems they are more interested in getting bigger than better. Outside of Microsoft Mindspring is one of the best companies capable of blowing smoke up their own ass.

Its a constant in Atlanta... getting "circuts are busy" or failed connects. That and their use of buggy 3COM Total Control racks that drop UDP packets so consistently that at prime time its quite possible to see 100% packet loss.

Too bad, they were a good company once, now they are just a big one.
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Ok, we thoroughly rock now. by Sevn · 1999-01-06 22:47 · Score: 1

I love working for this company.

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How about honoring ISP pricing. by Sevn · 1999-01-07 01:59 · Score: 1

One thing we did recently at MindSpring was give our customers using the unlimited plan 5 megs of webspace ( there used to be none with this plan ) without raising the price of the plan. We also doubled the commercial webhosting space without increasing the price of that plan. We work hard to improve our product offering as we get better deals on things and improve the way we do things.

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re: Oh yeah, and the stock has been up past 93 to by Sevn · 1999-01-07 02:00 · Score: 1

HAHAHAHAHAHA

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fast /.ers by chrisv · 1999-01-06 23:02 · Score: 1

i'm at school... man do i like 1st period :o)

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re: Oh yeah, and the stock has been up past 93 to by trippc · 1999-01-06 23:35 · Score: 1

Todd,

If you're going to beat sevn, may I watch?
Just wish Mindspring would fix their Atlanta probs by WiLD1 · 1999-01-07 01:00 · Score: 1

Since when has all circuts are busy messages been a problem of an ISP? That is the telephone companies lines not having the capacity to handle the phone call volume being transfered over them.
IGNORE THE TROLL!!!!! by jenniepye · 1999-01-07 13:55 · Score: 1

Might want to mention that the call centers are in Atlanta, GA... Harrisburg, PA.... and Phoenix, AZ.