Orange my internet provider have just acted outrageously in taking down the series of web sites at http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/credoconsultancy/uelhome.htm which I have developed over the past ten years.
They tell me they have discontinued their FTP websiste service and introduced a better one using a new content managment system.
Incredibly they are unable or unwilling to simply leave my pages on their server which as an archive site I would have been content with. Yet the pages I set up at http://www.maister-smith.fsnet.co.uk/familyweb/home.htm best part of a decade ago when they were "Freeserve" are still there.
Orange claim they emailed me some time ago but I have absolutely no record of this. One would have thought such a major change would warrant a snail mail letter.
I am now left with the prospect of several weeks of work which will involve:
- changing my ISP as I no longer want to deal with such an awful company
- setting up new email addresses for myselve and all the family
- informing hundreds of people in my mailing lists of my new contact details
- resetting large numbers of subscriptions to various mailing lists and on line resources, to my new emails
- reconstructing from scratch a personal web presence and uploading a large archive of my papers and documents.
You can see why I am red with rage and I can't see why anybody would be green with envy to have an account with orange.
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