this is my only form of communication now

irc and icq is dead

:l

I am replying to your last remaining form of communication to let you know that I sympathise with you.

I checked here to see if there was any news about a link out of Australia being dead, and lo, on the messageboard....

GODDAMIT TELSTRA OR WHOEVER!!!#!

This is beyond a joke, how much money do they get paid?!

this ihug dialup seems fine

Got this from the scheduled outages page. Anything to do with it?

Outage all services all states
Thursday, February 22th 2001

Dear Telstra BigPond Broadband customer,

On Thursday, 22nd February 2001 the BigPond Broadband service will be interrupted for necessary
maintenance.

Customers will experience a complete interruption to all services between the hours specified for their state.
The service will be fully restored before the end of the specified scheduled outage window.


Times of Scheduled Outages
Melbourne Service Interruption (Includes all ADSL customers)
5am-6am, Thursday 22nd February, 2001

Sydney Service Interruption
6am-7am, Thursday 22nd February, 2001

Brisbane/Southport Service Interruption
6am-7am, Thursday 22nd February, 2001

We appreciate your patience whilst we improve the service for you.

Regards,
Telstra BigPond Broadband Team

well, that might have something to do with it if it was 6am-7am, dontcha think ? :)

most ppl are still in IRC res ... even a heap of bpa'ers ... must just be you ;oP

Seems to be back up again for me, something was definitely wrong before though.

yeah same

I reckon you're just a big fibber res!

Toughened your nipples didn't it?

Sif half the internet isn't in au anyhow :P
Well most of the gayp0rn sites anyhow... I hear StreX has shares in one :).