[TheForge] UMBAonline.org

Thu Dec 12 01:53:00 2002

> http://www.umbaonline.org
>
> Can anyone access the above URL? Ive tried twice today with no luck.

No luck here either.

Net weirdness. umbaonline.com and umbaonline.org are both registered
to "Upper  Midwest Blacksmith".  www.umbaonline.org resolves to a long
list of addresses in Earthlink's net block but none of them wants to
talk to me.  OTOH, www.umbaonline.com redirects to something called
"isnbank.org" that doesn't look like it has anything to do with
blacksmithing. -- wants to sell you a mortgage.

DNS screwup?  Highjacked domain?   Earthlink confused the bank guys
with the blacksmiths (because the bank guys spammed) and shut down the
blacksmiths?  Weirdness.

Probably should contact the UMBA webmaster.

- Mike

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 

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