RE Bigpond news server

I thought Aussat was taken over by Telecom before the OTC merger. It may have been the same time.

I don't think there was any connection there?

Trevor.

Right, once the decision is made they'd switch it off regardless.

Trevor.

That's a problem when you don't make many calls and still have to pay $49 a month because that is the expiry time for credits. There are far cheaper options for those making few calls, but as I said, nowhere near the same coverage.

Trevor.

And they were still known as Telecom Australia - NOT AOTC - geddit? :-)

"The Australian and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation was established in 1992 after a merger took place between the Overseas Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Telecommunications Corporation. The Corporation continued to be known as Telecom Australia. In 1993 the Corporation changed its name, becoming the Telstra Corporation Limited."

Maybe you had an MP live in your suburb.

Well, kinda. Things are very different today but it's across the board.

Everything.

private profit is

What would be a legitimate example of competition actually making something worse?

Maybe but competition in a lot of areas is increasing and service is getting worse, competition can cause downward pressure on prices so no money left for good service which is certainly so in the cleaning industry. Some companies under quote then do a crap job, they usually don't keep their contracts long but they put pressure on other business's that quote properly.

See above, competition is usually good for consumers where price is the main consideration but it doesn't always deliver the best service.

Daryl

Yeah but that's bad for the business. We're talking about what's good for the customer.

It doesn't, but then these days service doesn't seem to be related to price like it used to be.

I have a second phone with a vodaphone sim which cost $2 and $20 recharge for 12 months the whole lot discounted 10% (although you have to put up with vodaphone coverage)

my phone cost $49 all up, it is prepaid my credit expires in 2115

And their constant bombarding you with TXT messages advertising other services.

I used to have Vodaphone 12 month expiry on the spare phones in the cars. As they have been expiring I;'ve been switching to Amaysim - Optus network and you only pay for what you use - no use, no bill. In fact if your use is under $15 they just roll it into the following month. And, unlike vodaphone, data works.

actually ICMP I use tcptraceroute when I want to know what's going on with traffic pointed at a particular service, it uses TCP packets.

that won't tell you if it's alive if it's unreachable, due to some sort of routing error or firewall. tcptraceroute will tell you where your packets are reaching, this information is potentially useful to the people who need to fix the mess.

I pinged it and it tried 4 times then said timed out, I then telnetted it and it said could not open connection to the host on port 119

Does this mean the bigpond news server server exists but not working, just need ammo when the case worker finally gets back to me.

So nothing in particular then.

Gas, electricity, water, public transport, telephone.... do I really need to go on?

Trevor.

Right, exactly as I said, you pay a HIGH price for Telstra coverage, even if you don't use it much. I would be happier to pay a high price only for the calls I actually make.

Trevor.

Or a month after you actually start using it.

Trevor.

It probably means the mx records reflect what previously existed but being down the server wont respond in spite of the mx claiming otherwise

basically fecked

On 4/05/2013 7:29 PM, atec77 wrote: [SNIP]

An MX record has nothing to do with a news server name being correct. MX records are for *mail* handling.

It's just an A record, that's all.

Which doesn't change the basic point that telstra collectively have less than no clue.

Cheers, Gary B-)