Apparently, one of the geeks at
Drizzle decided that I was "hacking" or something, and in the course of about five minutes I slowly found all of my services cut off. First my password was cut out, then my ssh access was denied, and now I can't even get my email. And now their ssh server is denying all contact from my IP address.
All I was trying to do was determine the parameters of their NNTP service, which apparently is a low-speed corporate offering from newsfeeds.com. I don't mind them changing news servers, but the level of service I was getting from them changed in mid-stream, and I do object to them touting this as some amazing improvement when, in fact, it's a drop in performance of 80% and you're not allowed multiple streams, as they have a six-stream limit with newsfeeds.com. Anyone who uses mozilla knows that mozilla always establishes two streams anyway, one for maintenence and one for actual contact, so the maximum number of users they could have reading Usenet at any given time was three if they were using a modern newsreader. Since I was almost always at least one of those users (I'm pretty much connected to Usenet 24/7), I bet they thought my running multiple streamers was excessive and cut me off.
I don't see anything in their terms of service or
any of their conditions about the permissions by which I access Usenet, and I'm annoyed that this has all happened Saturday morning, they
don't have support staff working on weekends, and nobody has called me. The sweet irony is that in an hour or less the script on my website, to which I now have no access, will update and this complaint will be publicly visible on drizzle itself. Snerk.
So now I'm looking for an alternative. Anyone got one?
In the meantime, you can email me at
elf.sternberg@speakeasy.net if you need to get in touch with me.
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