At 09:41 -0500 99.1.07, Deborah Brown wrote: >Lee Thompson wrote >>>Just change your nick. > >Joe Monson wrote: >>If the bot pissed-off a high muckitty-muck @ EFnet, they could have >>>banned anyone from her domain. Changing the nick won't help her if >>>that's what has happened. The only thing to do then is inquire with the >>>resident BOFH and see if that's what has happened. > >That's exactly what happened. (Had my arms full of wriggly boy and >couldn't go into details.) Apparently some idiot who'd been using >ERInet as their ISP had gotten onto EFNet (and I think at least one >other server) and started up a self-replicating Bot. Kono baka-yaro >desu. I've not actually checked with ERInet to see if that's why I >can't get on EFNet now, but one of my friends who was also on ERInet >told me that was *probably* the cause. > >>Or change ISPs. >I could, but it's more trouble than it's worth. My current addy has >been passed out far and wide and I don't want to have to change it if >I don't have to. Had another thought: you could find a fairly cheap ISP in your area (other than ERInet) and get a SECOND account to use as mainly a backup. You could then access EFNet using that account. Also: if one ISP was down, the other might not be down. And if you got an account with someplace like NetCom, there's no way they would shut off access to _that_ domain--it has too many users and is too huge. Joe <----------------------------------------------------------------> Nippon Resources FAQ: http://www.enol.com/~nihon/psx/nippon-resources-faq.html Playstation Complete Schedule: http://www.enol.com/~nihon/psx/ <----------------------------------------------------------------> If you want to work on your computer, buy a Wintel machine. If you want to DO work on your computer, buy a Mac. <--------------------------------------------------->