What happened to The World

[mattlistener]

www.world.std.com is back up, though incoming and outgoing email are still down, 48 hours and counting.

There's an "Important System News" link on their front page from Friday that explains that contract negotiations with their upstream provider broke down, and they anticipated "brief, intermittent, service interruptions" starting from 6pm Sunday.

Very amusingly, the link to "Customer Help" on the front page brings up an error page saying, "You don't have permission to access /help/ on this server."

I've sent a query to netspace.org asking if they support various command-line things I want. I'll check out panix too. Any other recommandations? (Yes, no need for dialup, just shell.)

Comments

[catya.livejournal.com]

do you just need a shell account for mail?

[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

email, tcsh, a small web-page, and ~150MB of storage are what I'm after.

"email" entails a lot of packages in my case, so I'm guessing I'll need to go with another institutional provider to get them: emacs, mh, procmail, spamassassin/spambayes, screen.

Welcome to homeport, my friend :)

[penk.livejournal.com]

We'll happily give you an account at homeport. We have all that stuff on our server(s), and have a half dozen folks who use us for webhosting, mail, and irc stuff.

If you have any mail gateway, just drop mail to geekery@homeport.org, adn we'll get you set up.

Re: Welcome to homeport, my friend :)

[catya.livejournal.com]

oh good, i figured that we had all that stuff :)

[arfur]

I don't know much about FreeShell, but a few people I know seem to be happy there.