For the past two days trying to access email, newsgroups and today even the 
internet generally has been a lottery.  Virgin's telephone support service 
is carrying a message to the effect that there is a fault affecting several 
ISPs and they are talking to their suppliers and hope to resolve the issue 
as quickly as possible.

I wonder what's behind it all.  Did someone fail to pay their bill on time, 
or has Paddy put a pickaxe through a major datastream cable?  Are the 
Russians behind it?  Is it an international plot to deprive us of 
information?  Will it ever bloody well stop raining?   This and other 
aggravating issues are thoroughly ruining my retirement and I want them 
sorted out NOW!   Grrrrrr!!!!!

-- 
Dave (Sgt. Pepper)       Epsom, England
     My photo galleries at  http://www.pbase.com/davecq
    "I will not tolerate intolerance ... Doh!!"

"Dave (Sgt. Pepper)" wrote:
> 
> For the past two days trying to access email, newsgroups and today even the
> internet generally has been a lottery.  Virgin's telephone support service
> is carrying a message to the effect that there is a fault affecting several
> ISPs and they are talking to their suppliers and hope to resolve the issue
> as quickly as possible.
> 
> I wonder what's behind it all.  Did someone fail to pay their bill on time,
> or has Paddy put a pickaxe through a major datastream cable?  Are the
> Russians behind it?  Is it an international plot to deprive us of
> information?  Will it ever bloody well stop raining?   This and other
> aggravating issues are thoroughly ruining my retirement and I want them
> sorted out NOW!   Grrrrrr!!!!!

I share your frustration though oddly two of my four email accounts are
still working. I get the impression that the email problem my be the
authentication server, it bears similarities to similar problems way
back. News and web have generally been as usual. I note that they have
been acknowledging a fault with  email on their service status page
since 13/8. not a lot of help but you are not the only one suffering.

Hope you enjoy your retirement. Took early retirement my self ten years
ago and don't regret it. I did get a part time job in the local college
for a few years but couldn't stand the idiots who ran it and chucked it
after a few years and the onset of heart problems.

Alec

Dave,

I notice that the email fault has been downgraded from red to amber on
the service status page. They do say there may be some 'lost' emails
that they are working to recover. One of the two email addresses that
was down is now working intermittently - progress of sorts.

Alec

wrote in message news:48A55616.1E404062@hotmail.com...
> Dave,
>
> I notice that the email fault has been downgraded from red to amber on
> the service status page. They do say there may be some 'lost' emails
> that they are working to recover. One of the two email addresses that
> was down is now working intermittently - progress of sorts.
>
> Alec

Hi Alec,

Yes it all seems to be working ok this morning (fingers firmly crossed).  It 
was quite bizarre at times yesterday.  I could usually get into mail after 
numerous attempts, but my wife, who has her own email account on my virgin 
subscription, could not get in at all no matter how many times we tried.  It 
just kept returning messages like 'account locked' or 'identity blocked' and 
weird things like that.

Internet seems a bit speedier this morning too, although that may just be 
coincidence.

Yes, re your other post, I am actually really enjoying my retirement.  I 
left a couple of years ago at the age of 58 with no intentions of seeking 
further employment, and that is still the case.  I love my leisurely days, 
getting up late, pottering around the garden, walks down to the village pub 
for lunch, trips out to the countryside with my camera ... it's a grand 
life.  I now realise just what I was missing all those years imprisoned in 
an office killing myself to meet other people's deadlines ... never again.

Dave.