Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

This appears to be my month for connectivity problems.

I got email from a mailing list administrator saying that a recent post had been bounced as spam by my ISP. Complained on the phone, on behalf of the two other local subscribers and myself, and tech support said they'd contact network administration about it. After being off that list and another distributed out of the same place for a few hours, I've now got a message from my ISP saying that the machine in question has been removed from their "spam senders" list. I wanna know a) why it wound up there in the first place, and b) why their doing this on 2002-06-02 had no effect until noon today. Of course, (a) is rather more important than (b).

When I woke up this morning I called AT&T customer service from a deactivated cell phone to ask them to restore IP service for my main cell phone. (Deactivated phones can dial 611 and 911. Comes in handy for calling tech support about my phone, since the only thing on my land line is the modem.) I'd been unable to connect to the web or my email from my phone for a couple days. When I was in Peoria I couldn't use it because apparently only Sprint has antennas there; when I came back I couldn't connect, so I called tech support to get that straightened out. After a few days of working, it failed with different symptoms.

What's next? A postal strike? A backhoe error? Feh.