Midcoast Internet Solutions

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News & Notices

August 2003

• August 26, 2003 The Mailman web email software on our www.midcoast.com homepage has been upgraded. The new upgrade permits address books, folders, signature, online help, and several other options that were not present in the old software version.
• August 25, 2003 Some Damariscotta and Lincolnville area DSL customers are having trouble today with the DSL system. We are aware of this and are troubleshooting the problem. Update August 26, 2003, The number of customers with problem has been reduced to about eight (eight too many), and we are working with Tidewater on this.
• August 21, 2003 Some people using our proxy server for good performance are using quiver.midcoast.com, quivering.midcoast.com, or 206.26.224.133 for a hostname in the proxy server field. If you are using these settings, please change them to 10.0.0.3 as soon as possible.
• August 20, 2003 In addition to spam filtering, MIS now has a filtering option to block incoming email attachments that are commonly associated with viruses. This might be handy for some people with the current flurry of Sobig viruses traveling by email. Call our office or email help@midcoast.com to request to have the filter enabled. Advanced users can use the akon command via ssh.
• August 14, 2003 As mentioned in the July newsletter, 589-3380 in Liberty will be going away. This is an old analog 33.6 number. Valid replacement numbers are 589-3003, 1-500-699-7201, and 1-500-699-7200. All three numbers are V90 ready, and the last number is V92 ready.
• August 12, 2003 Some users of Windows XP and 2000 are experiencing a problem where their computer tells them they have 60 seconds before their computer reboots. This is a nasty worm virus that you should repair immediately. It is spreading very quickly. Follow the suggestions in this link and/or take your computer to a repair shop if you are unable to fix it yourself.
• August 11, 2003This morning a problem was corrected where junkmail was not tagged for @midcoast.com. Email was being processed fine, but just not getting tagged as desired. This has been fixed.
• August 9, 2003 10:30pm. An untimely hardware failure for www.midcoast.com has interupted surfing and email checking for a period into the early morning. We've taken this opportunity to upgrade some software and hardware. There will be a few small glitches to iron out as a result of this upgrade process. We'll stay working on it.
• August 7, 2003 3:30-5:00pm. Some downtown Camden wireless customers were out because of a failed power supply in Camden. This has been fixed.
• August 7, 2003 3:15pm. Union dialup and wireless will be out for a short time while a new lightning arrestor device is installed this afternoon.
• August 7, 2003 9:45am. Some downtown Rockport wireless customers will lose connections for a couple hours while CMP does electrical work for the building we are in.
• August 1, 2003 12:10am. The main router for our internet traffic will be rebooted for an upgrade. This will affect surfing for about two minutes while it is rebooted.