Re: Alden's woes getting worse (fwd)

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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Tyle <address@hidden>
To: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: Alden's woes getting worse

We're still getting DDPLUS and IDS from lightning.alden.com.

Strongly suspect that they're just "running on fumes".  End of month
will be interesting, me suspects.

--Kevin Tyle <address@hidden>
MESO, Inc.
Troy, NY



On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Jim Koermer wrote:
> 
> > Gilbert,
> > 
> > Surprisingly, we have been getting continuous Alden ku-band DIFAX during
> > all these woes! However, their ku-band DDPLUS feed had been dead for 10
> > days. I just wonder how long DIFAX will continue to function.
> > 
> >                             Jim
>  
> Lightning.alden.com is dead, but thunder.alden.com is spewing 2-panel
> "unglued" maps. My hunch is that the data is gradually going away as the
> unpaid phone lines get shut off, one by one.
> 
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