[olug] Cox Email Outage

Justin Reiners justin at hotlinesinc.com
Mon Dec 24 16:03:13 UTC 2012


Its strange, I do not use Cox email, and did not receive any injections.  I
figured my buddy was feeding me a line. I would never seriously use Cox as
my primary email.
On Dec 24, 2012 9:22 AM, "Christopher Cashell" <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Dave Thacker <dthacker at bluestrain.net>
> wrote:
> > I have my letter of apology and contrition.   Any scuttlebutt on exactly
> what
> > type of storage failed or the type of failure?
>
> No, but I did find the web injection crap they were using to insert
> notifications about it into our web browsing incredibly annoying and
> obnoxious.  It also left me wondering, do people still use
> ISP-specific e-mail services?  In the modern world of Gmail (and
> similar services), why would anyone want to tie their e-mail (and
> their e-mail address) to their ISP?
>
> > Dave
>
> --
> Christopher
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