Re: ISP Problems

["G. Patrick Woodruff" <woodr004@gold.tc.umn.edu>]

Sounds like a reasonable proposal.

Pat


At 09:22 AM 3/22/97 -0500, you wrote:
>For the last month I have been unable to FTP to my site because of problems
at the ISP. 
> Yesterday I went to their office in person and got no satisfaction by
phone, e-mail, or 
>FAX.
>
>Would you believe that after expalining the problem 8 times in the last
month they 
>wanted me to go through it one more time, and at the end of it they said,
"we'll look 
>into it?"
>
>So, I signed up on a new ISP and it was running the same day.
>
>I could put the site I had before on the new ISP server.  (It works fine, I
tried)
>
>But, I can't ftp a "we have moved" page, or even delete the old site at the
first 
>provider.
>
>What would be best is to know when Ray's site is fit for public
consumption.  That way, 
>I could just abandon the old site (and stop paying the bill) and I would
not set up the 
>new site to avoid confusion.
>
>Opinions?
>
>Martin
>
>