Looks like Earthlink's connection to Giganews is down again.
 

It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Looks like Earthlink's connection to Giganews is down again.
 

On May 1, 7:48*am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Yup, it's not just you. The Earthlink forum at dslreports.com
confirms this is happening to multiple people.

Looks like Earthlink's connection to Giganews is down again.
 

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Yep. I called and they even admitted it...

Looks like Earthlink's connection to Giganews is down again.
 

Mark Blain wrote:
On May 1, 7:48*am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Yup, it's not just you. The Earthlink forum at dslreports.com
confirms this is happening to multiple people.

Somebody probably got caught saying something critical of the Commissar.
=:-O

Thanks,
Rich

Looks like Earthlink's connection to Giganews is down again.
 

Mark Blain wrote:

On May 1, 7:48 am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Yup, it's not just you. The Earthlink forum at dslreports.com
confirms this is happening to multiple people.


The last time it happened, they refused to admit it. Then they
wanted remote access to my computers to 'change a few settings' even
though it died in the middle of downloading a message. I asked several
times to be kicked up to a higher level of support, and the heavy Indian
accent just got worse.

It started working again around 4:00 PM for me.


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Tom Gardner wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

Mark Blain wrote:

On May 1, 7:48 am, "Michael A. Terrell"

wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Yup, it's not just you. The Earthlink forum at dslreports.com
confirms this is happening to multiple people.


The last time it happened, they refused to admit it. Then they
wanted remote access to my computers to 'change a few settings' even
though it died in the middle of downloading a message. I asked
several
times to be kicked up to a higher level of support, and the heavy
Indian
accent just got worse.

It started working again around 4:00 PM for me.


--
You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-AidT on it, because
it's
Teflon coated.

I have Giganews for $5/mo or something like that and I haven't had a
single burp in a year.


Earthlink has a Giganews corporate account, and uses their own
authentication servers. They laid off the only employee that knew
anything about how they work. :(


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Wes wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

Then they
wanted remote access to my computers to 'change a few settings' even
though it died in the middle of downloading a message.

What freaking planet are they from? Might as well ask for banking password and the safes
combination while they are at it.


I told him that I wouldn't let anyone have access to my computer, and
that I had been in the computer business from the early '80s. he
insisted that they didn't have a problem, so it must be all five of the
computers I had on my network. I posted the entire conversation on one
of the Earthlink related newsgroups when I finally got back on usenet.


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Beryl wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Mark Blain wrote:
On May 1, 7:48 am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.
Yup, it's not just you. The Earthlink forum at dslreports.com
confirms this is happening to multiple people.


The last time it happened, they refused to admit it. Then they
wanted remote access to my computers to 'change a few settings' even
though it died in the middle of downloading a message. I asked several
times to be kicked up to a higher level of support, and the heavy Indian
accent just got worse.

It started working again around 4:00 PM for me.

I had Earthlink dialup once-upon-a-time, at somewhere around $20+ per
month. After a few years, I signed up with a different ISP at less than
half the cost, then called Raj to close my Earthlink account. He said
'No, you will not cancel, we will match that price." But it was too
late, sorry, bye Earthlink.

It took much prodding to get my sister to call Raj about "cancelling"
her $20+ Earthlink account, and get offered a price-match, but she
finally did it about 2 years ago. Since then, she's had Earthlink's
service for $10/mo.

Call Raj. He really doesn't want you to go.


I have broadband, not dialup. My chices a

1: AOL
2: Road Runner
3: Earthlink

Guess which one offers newsgroups?


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pyotr filipivich wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" on Sun, 01 May 2011
17:41:30 -0400 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

Mark Blain wrote:

On May 1, 7:48 am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Yup, it's not just you. The Earthlink forum at dslreports.com
confirms this is happening to multiple people.


The last time it happened, they refused to admit it. Then they
wanted remote access to my computers to 'change a few settings' even
though it died in the middle of downloading a message. I asked several
times to be kicked up to a higher level of support, and the heavy Indian
accent just got worse.

It started working again around 4:00 PM for me.

OF course, with Earthlink's link down, you can't find out that the
link is down.

Apparently, that is not considered a service outage, or serious
enough to put up on their webpage. Not even a "Yes, Giganews link
down."


They removed any reference to usenet problems from their outages page
when they outsourced the service to Supernews.


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On 2011-05-02, Tom Gardner w@w wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in message
...

Mark Blain wrote:

On May 1, 7:48 am, "Michael A. Terrell"

wrote:
It's playing the same "Invalid user name or password" crap again.

Yup, it's not just you. The Earthlink forum at dslreports.com
confirms this is happening to multiple people.

[ ... ]

I have Giganews for $5/mo or something like that and I haven't had a
single burp in a year.

And I get good service from Newsguy for $99.99 per year (or
$9.99 per month -- your choice), including access to all the binary
newsgroups (which I am not really interested in, but they are there). I
never use the allotted monthly bandwidth, and it accumulates, so I have
something over 2.5 TB of bandwidth available now. :-) (And -- they keep
giving me more monthly bandwidth for being a loyal customer. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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On 2011-05-02, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Beryl wrote:

[ ... ]

I had Earthlink dialup once-upon-a-time, at somewhere around $20+ per

[ ... ]

Call Raj. He really doesn't want you to go.


I have broadband, not dialup. My chices a

1: AOL
2: Road Runner
3: Earthlink

Guess which one offers newsgroups?

You don't *have* to use *their* usenet feed. With broadband,
you can connect to any of a number of commercial news servers which do a
*lot* better than the ISPs *who* sort of do usenet because some people
want it. My choice is Newsguy -- but there are others which have been
mentioned here as well.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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"DoN. Nichols" wrote:

On 2011-05-02, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Beryl wrote:

[ ... ]

I had Earthlink dialup once-upon-a-time, at somewhere around $20+ per

[ ... ]

Call Raj. He really doesn't want you to go.


I have broadband, not dialup. My chices a

1: AOL
2: Road Runner
3: Earthlink

Guess which one offers newsgroups?

You don't *have* to use *their* usenet feed. With broadband,
you can connect to any of a number of commercial news servers which do a
*lot* better than the ISPs *who* sort of do usenet because some people
want it. My choice is Newsguy -- but there are others which have been
mentioned here as well.


I know that, but I am paying $49 a month for broadband internet and
usenet so I don't want to spend even more. It's already my second
largest bill every monnth.


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid™ on it, because it's
Teflon coated.