[OT] NBCi to close

Just a heads-up note to those of us who are hosted on NBCi.com (was
Xoom). NBCi is being absorbed back into NBC and ``There's no question that
we'll dramatically reduce the scope of the operations and sell some assets''
(NBC Internet's chief executive Will Lansing). ``The sharp declines in the
Internet advertising market convinced us that it didn't make sense to pursue a
portal strategy." NBC's chief financial officer Mark Begor said. ``We wanted
to find a way to maximize shareholder value and wind down the
business in the best way possible.'' --
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010409/tc/nbc_internet_4.html

I have not heard anything directly from NBCi, so I don't know for sure, but it
sounds like the web hosting service may be discontinued. Those of us
hosted on it (http://members.nbci.com/) may want to look for other
hosting options in case it does close (and back up our web sites incase it
does close).

I am a bit delayed on this (same reasons as my other post), but my host is
doing the same. All free service (including my sight) will be scraped.

So if anyone knows of a host who provides ASP and access database support, or
who can host my site for me, could you please reply to this, or contact me on
mailto:ftshipcreator@bigpond.com

Thanks, Andrew Ayres

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