Interesting that this comes days after the rebranding of Tucows' wholesale email service as OpenSRS. All management is change management...

Some observers believe that it is not in fact the moon which govern the tides but Virgin Media's email servers falling over.

If I thought any other ISP was actually any better and could be arsed dealing with customer service droids I'd move.

Not *any* ISP, but *most* other ISPs are actually better.

OpenSRS

Posted 30 minutes ago

Virgin Media - Regular as clockwork

Posted 20 minutes ago

Is there some censorship going on here? There's only comment when I check the page.

...what? OpenSRS is their domain name system.

So if OpenSRS went titsup, then it affected a fair number of people. I quit using OpenSRS the day my hosting provider started their NIC. I trust them a lot more, even though OpenSRS is Canadian.

My first reaction was that they had simply deleted my e-mail account because I stopped using them as an ISP three years ago. But no. Apparently it is just that they are crap.

Ha, my ISP is VM but my old ISP still delivers my mails - for free, 4 years on!

Makes you wonder why some ISP's are so lax at deleting lapsed mail accounts - what's in it for them?

"Working around the clock"

means

"It'll take days, not hours"

Next they'll be having a go at finding out how it happened, and putting measures in place to see what happens next time but hoping that it doesn't.

You're right, The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software is a damn silly name for an ISP ...

I was fairly happy with NTL (cable and adsl). Things went downhill rapidly after Virgin took over (adsl). I am now _extremely_ happy with Zen (adsl).

Maybe there is a good reason for staying with Virgin as an ISP, but I have no idea what it might be.

<I got my coat and left>

You need to raise your expectations!

Your ISP (3.5/10): http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/products/10.html

Best of breed (9.5/10): http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php

Virgin still has customers ?!?

But then, I don't touch any ISP's email, and use my own tied with my domain. At least my hosts work faster than Virgin email's!

From Tucows' website:

"Recent News »

Tucows Reseller Services is now OpenSRS

July 27, 2008 — Some of our long-time resellers may remember that OpenSRS was the name of our original reseller service when it started in 1999. We feel this name best captures our heritage as a provider of services to hosting companies and ISPs and will let us continue to build on our promise to be Reseller Friendly.

We'll continue to provide you with our suite of wholesale services - Domains, Email, SSL, and our new Personal Names service - only now we'll be doing so under the OpenSRS name."

The wholesale email service now falls under the OpenSRS brand.

You're welcome.

so most of the time your email works, then when it goes off for a couple of days you all piss and moan

GET A LIFE PLEASE

Title says it all really

[Serves you right for being with virgin media]

Whats wrong with this isp!

It supplies crap service, and now it cant even give us e-mail facility without using a third party supplier, i wondered where the Tucows advertising came from now i know

if it wasnt for the free newsgroups i would ditch these amatuers very quickly!

Get your own domain name and host it with a quality provider. Then you never need to suffer this sort of muppetry again.

I recommend the Zimbra service from Simply Mail Solutions: www.simplyms.com - excellent Ajax web interface and there hasn't been a single outage that I'm aware of in the two years I've been using them. All of that, including a more than adequate 1GB mailbox for a tiny £3.50 a month.

"Maybe there is a good reason for staying with Virgin as an ISP, but I have no idea what it might be."

As a cable customer that would be 20mb/sec without living 3 inches from one's nearest exchange. Really can't remember how long ago I used an ISP's email service (they shouldn't provide them at all imo - but how many people use gmail yet would complain if VM stopped providing such services?).

But yes I don't understand why VM have an ADSL arm all all - the only thing it does for them is win them bad publicity, they should dump all their customers on somebody like zen or be.

but I don't believe it is affiliated with OpenBSD, which is based in Alberta, Canada. When I saw OpenSRS I assumed it was but then couldn't find reference to it on their website.

I don't know if any of you were thinking this, as well.

OpenBSD is, too my very limited knowledge, a rock solid OS and the projects affiliated with it are pretty good too. Those are OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Cripes! #1: people still use ISP email?

Cripes! #2: tucows is still around?

Mine's the purple one; I'm gonna party like its 1999

Seconded

I use 1 and 1 for my domain and mail (never had an issue with their linux mail cluster) and Namesco for my ADSL because its cheap and their service ain't bad

My mail costs me just over £8 a year

lot to be said for not putting your eggs in one basket.