My neighbour's ISP?

Hi, my neighbour is having trouble getting on-line with her broadband
connection. She tells me that after hopping from ISP to ISP, including
AOL, Telewest, BlueYonder etc., she is currently with *Virgin
Broadband*.
I can see no indications of this on her existing computer setup, in
fact there's a lot of BlueYonder related stuff. This includes her
current username: (E-Mail Removed). Rosie explained that
she is on a package which caused her Blueyonder login details to be
carried over to the new Broadband account.
Equally confusing is the fact that the modem is a Motorola Surfboard
cable modem. Do Virgin Broadband provide a route for ex-BlueYonder
subscribers to keep using their old hardware and login details on a
new Virgin based service?
Seems quite peculiar to me.

Regards,
Dick Treen

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi, my neighbour is having trouble getting on-line with her broadband
> connection. She tells me that after hopping from ISP to ISP, including
> AOL, Telewest, BlueYonder etc., she is currently with *Virgin
> Broadband*.
> I can see no indications of this on her existing computer setup, in
> fact there's a lot of BlueYonder related stuff. This includes her
> current username: (deleted)@blueyonder.co.uk. Rosie explained that
> she is on a package which caused her Blueyonder login details to be
> carried over to the new Broadband account.
> Equally confusing is the fact that the modem is a Motorola Surfboard
> cable modem. Do Virgin Broadband provide a route for ex-BlueYonder
> subscribers to keep using their old hardware and login details on a
> new Virgin based service?
> Seems quite peculiar to me.

Well done for putting your neighbours email address in the clear on a
newsgroup. That used to be the guaranteed way to get onto spammer lists !
(I changed it to (deleted) in the extract above).


Blueyonder was a Telewest brand. Now owned by Virgin. Does that help you
?

The following was second URL on a search of "blueyonder" on Google:
http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...e/telewest.php




- Nigel


--
Nigel Cliffe,
Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/

On 15 Dec, 10:42, "Nigel Cliffe" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> treenoa...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > Hi, my neighbour is having trouble getting on-line with her broadband
> > connection. She tells me that after hopping from ISP to ISP, including
> > AOL, Telewest, BlueYonder etc., she is currently with *Virgin
> > Broadband*.
> > I can see no indications of this on her existing computer setup, in
> > fact there's a lot of BlueYonder related stuff. This includes her
> > current username: (deleted)@blueyonder.co.uk. Rosie explained that
> > she is on a package which caused her Blueyonder login details to be
> > carried over to the new Broadband account.
> > Equally confusing is the fact that the modem is a Motorola Surfboard
> > cable modem. Do Virgin Broadband provide a route for ex-BlueYonder
> > subscribers to keep using their old hardware and login details on a
> > new Virgin based service?
> > Seems quite peculiar to me.
>
> Well done for putting your neighbours email address in the clear on a
> newsgroup.

Don't be such a daft pratt. You're too desperate to score points
matey.

>That used to be the guaranteed way to get onto spammer lists !
> (I changed it to (deleted) in the extract above).
>
> Blueyonder was a Telewest brand. Now owned by Virgin. Does that help you
> ?
>
> The following was second URL on a search of "blueyonder" on Google:http://www.virginmedia.com/customers...e/telewest.php
>
> - Nigel
>
> --
> Nigel Cliffe,
> Webmaster athttp://www.2mm.org.uk/

Thanks Nigel

Regards,
Dick Treen

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On 15 Dec, 10:42, "Nigel Cliffe" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> Well done for putting your neighbours email address in the clear on a
>> newsgroup.
>
> Don't be such a daft pratt. You're too desperate to score points
> matey.

Unfortunately Nigel was correct - spammers scan newsgroups, extract
plaintext readable email addresses, and add them to their lists.

--
Mark McIntyre

CLC FAQ <http://c-faq.com/>
CLC readme: <http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt>

On 15 Dec, 11:10, Mark McIntyre <markmcint...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> treenoa...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > On 15 Dec, 10:42, "Nigel Cliffe" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >> Well done for putting your neighbours email address in the clear on a
> >> newsgroup.
>
> > Don't be such a daft pratt. You're too desperate to score points
> > matey.
>
> Unfortunately Nigel was correct - spammers scan newsgroups, extract
> plaintext readable email addresses, and add them to their lists.

No, Nigel was not correct, because I didn't put my neighbour's email
address in a NG post. Geddit?

Regards,
Dick Treen

On 15 Dec, 11:10, Mark McIntyre <markmcint...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> treenoa...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > On 15 Dec, 10:42, "Nigel Cliffe" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
> >> Well done for putting your neighbours email address in the clear on a
> >> newsgroup.
>
> > Don't be such a daft pratt. You're too desperate to score points
> > matey.
>
> Unfortunately Nigel was correct - spammers scan newsgroups, extract
> plaintext readable email addresses, and add them to their lists.

No, Nigel was not correct, because I didn't put my neighbour's email
address in a NG post. Geddit?

Regards,
Dick Treen

In message
<e22c0e23-f1a2-4f60-a44f-(E-Mail Removed)>
at 04:35:06 on Sat, 15 Dec 2007, "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>No, Nigel was not correct, because I didn't put my neighbour's email
>address in a NG post. Geddit?
>
Well I just hope there isn't a Rosie Phillips on blue yonder isn't a
valid address then
--
Mike News

On 15 Dec, 13:07, Mike
<turnpike_user@turnpike_REMOVEuser.THIScomANDTHI S> wrote:
> In message
> <e22c0e23-f1a2-4f60-a44f-9026f9995...@18g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
> at 04:35:06 on Sat, 15 Dec 2007, "treenoa...@googlemail.com"
> <treenoa...@googlemail.com> wrote>No, Nigel was not correct, because I didn't put my neighbour's email
> >address in a NG post. Geddit?
>
> >
> Well I just hope there isn't a Rosie Phillips on blue yonder isn't a
> valid address then
> --
> Mike News

I just knew tht's what you'd hope Mike. Milk it for everything it's
got eh?

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> Hi, my neighbour is having trouble getting on-line with her broadband
> connection. She tells me that after hopping from ISP to ISP, including
> AOL, Telewest, BlueYonder etc., she is currently with *Virgin
> Broadband*.

Well, BlueYonder WAS Telewest's broadband and Telewest is part of Virgin
Media now so there's not actually been that much hopping.


> I can see no indications of this on her existing computer setup, in
> fact there's a lot of BlueYonder related stuff. This includes her
> current username: (E-Mail Removed). Rosie explained that
> she is on a package which caused her Blueyonder login details to be
> carried over to the new Broadband account.
> Equally confusing is the fact that the modem is a Motorola Surfboard
> cable modem.

These were quite common cable modems some time back.

Graham

In message
<814467f1-b25d-46a2-9c5a-(E-Mail Removed)>
at 06:06:41 on Sat, 15 Dec 2007, "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>I just knew tht's what you'd hope Mike. Milk it for everything it's
>got eh?
>
Just a shame you've got a throwaway account isn't it
--
Mike News