[Helpdesk] Server problem

[Andrew Main]

For what it's worth, you're not alone. This was happening to me  
yesterday, though not so far today. (And it's happened a few times in  
recent weeks, for no apparent reason.) Not all sites, but enough to  
be a nuisance. Afraid I have no idea why; haven't had/taken time to  
investigate -- except that trying the same site in another browser  
produced the same result (couldn't connect, though that browser  
didn't show the same message as Safari). I can only suggest, try  
again later; that's worked for me.

I'm with EarthLink also; I switched a few months ago, mostly for  
their faster DSL including dialup. I work on other people's  
computers, and it was annoying to have to pay CyberMesa 75c extra  
just to test a modem when they were already getting nearly $40/month  
from me for slow DSL. Unfortunately, I'd have to say I've been rather  
less than impressed with EarthLink. CyberMesa included an excellent  
spam filtering service; EarthLink, whose resources must be far  
greater, leaves it up to the user to figure out how to deal with  
junkmail. (The spam avalanche began within half an hour of setting up  
this address -- certainly not due to my having used it anywhere --  
and has continued unabated.) And I've had far more dropouts on music  
streams from EarthLink's DSL.

Email clients such as Apple Mail connect to a different server than  
the one that provides for web access, so problems with the one won't  
necessarily be duplicated by the other.

Sorry I can't be of more help; if I ever figure out what causes this  
problem, I'll post a message. I suspect it's somewhere in EarthLink's  
server, though. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.

Andrew Main

On Jan 6, 2006, at 8:38 AM, helpdesk at santafemug.org wrote:

> I work on G4 Mac powerbook.  All of a sudden when I hit Safari, it  
> says cannot connect to server???? I used it with no problems all  
> yesterday afternoon -- and suddenly began getting this message.   
> Messages sent to earthlink are coming thru to Mail.  What is up?
>
> Karlene
> Karlene N. Dickey
> 2 Cosmos Circle
> Santa Fe, NM 87506
>
> 505-983-0849
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