YES YES YES.... I am a bellsouth .net customer and stockholder... the 
service is the pits... They can not seem to get their act together and I 
have given them almost 2 years...I finally purchased a permenant e-mail 
address so when I drop them, I won't lose all my contacts. With the many 
talented individuals in the Computer Industry, I can not help wonder why 
none of them are working for Bellsouth...I guess I expect more of a company 
who lead the telecommunications industry. I have a large number of friends 
who work for Bellsouth Telecommunications and they are just as baffled at 
the poor service.... maybe it's time I dumped my Bellsouth.net account and 
the stock....

Deborah Callicott
Florida
-----Original Message-----
	Steven J. Coker [SMTP:[email protected]]
	Saturday, August 01, 1998 5:07 PM
	[email protected]
	Bellsouth Problems?

Some information for subscribers using Bellsouth Internet Service.  This 
may
explain why some of you may not have been getting the mail, or why you may 
have
been unexpectedly unsubscribed.

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 Subject: Re: Bellsouth problems??
   Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 15:18:18 -0700
   From: Tim Pierce  (by way of Vicki Lindsay)
     To: [email protected]

On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 02:43:53PM -0700, Maura Petzolt by way of Vicki
Lindsay wrote:
>
> Is anyone else having bounce and "user unknown" problems with
> bellsouth.net addresses this afternoon/morning??
>
> Every @bellsouth.net address I have on my lists is "user unknown" with
> every post , yet the machine is not unsubbing any of them... even when I
> send a personal message to them it bounces, so it has to be a bellsouth
> problem.

I haven't seen this happen today, but I've had this problem many times with
bellsouth.net.  (In fact, all of the Baby Bells seem to provide dismal 
Internet
service.)  We just have to wait for BellSouth to get their collective act
together.  It's a shame for the subscribers, but there's not much that we 
can do
about it.

Regards,
Tim Pierce
RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
system obfuscator and hack-of-all-trades

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COPIES OF A FEW RECENT BOUNCED BELLSOUTH EMAILS.

Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
   Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:09:53 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem 
     To: 

The original message was received at Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:09:33 -0400 (EDT)
From mail4.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.4]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----


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Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
   Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:09:32 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem 
     To: 

The original message was received at Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:08:53 -0400 (EDT)
From mail4.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.4]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----









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Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
   Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 14:09:11 -0700 (PDT)
   From: Mail Delivery Subsystem 
     To: 

The original message was received at Fri, 31 Jul 1998 17:08:49 -0400 (EDT)
From bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----


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