IBM.COM's ISP melt down

This is exactly what I was talking about in a recent posting on computer 
infrastructure training in the http://www.j2mediagroup.com/ProgramOutline.htm 
e-commerce curriculum, where I suggested a simulation of stuff that goes 
wrong where top managers are usually clueless, making business decisions that 
compound their cluelessness, & have a wall clock with 10 minute markings 
changed to 1,000 customers confidence lost if you not figure this out & 
resolve it real fast, with the lesson of the class regarding investment 
needed to minimize how often you get into this kind of mess.

I correspond with these 2 IBM people all the time, although one more often 
than the other, who work out of totally different offices.  For both of them 
to lose IBM job or stop want talk to me at same time is unbelievable.

What is believeable to me is that the IBM.COM ISP had a melt down, because 
some dingbat at IBM HQ is not using their most reliable server & we all know 
what that is, but IBM HQ does not because they cannot play politics across 
divisions.  In the course of this melt down, the ISP e-mail server has lost 
connection with its directory of valid users, so all e-mail becomes an 
invalid address.

   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<djenkins@us.ibm.com>
<dlhayde@us.ibm.com>

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to d04nhs07.ibm.com.:
>>> RCPT To:<"Dan Hayden/Evansville/IBM%IBMUS"@localhost>
<<< 550 <"Dan Hayden/Evansville/IBM%IBMUS"@localhost>... User unknown
550 <dlhayde@us.ibm.com>... User unknown
>>> RCPT To:<"Doug Jenkins/Atlanta/IBM%IBMUS"@localhost>
<<< 550 <"Doug Jenkins/Atlanta/IBM%IBMUS"@localhost>... User unknown
550 <djenkins@us.ibm.com>... User unknown

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
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