Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage

An anonymous reader writes "Cox Communications appears to be injecting JavaScript and HTML into subscribers' traffic, as part of their effort to announce an email service outage. Pictures showing the popup."

They should have warned us

[icebike]

Shouldn't they send an email warning us about injecting stuff in our web traffic?

The amusing part

[Anonymous Coward]

is that it refers to Outlook Express, a mail client that was deprecated over 5 years ago.

Re:They should have warned us

[WWJohnBrowningDo]

I just injected a woosh into your HTTP stream.

You should feel it soon; or maybe it'll just go over your head again.

Re:Is this News?

[Pedrito]

Actually, that's exactly what I'm going to do now. I was already pissed because my connection has been going down a lot lately. Then they pull this crap. Bye Cox!

Re:Is this News?

[Anonymous Coward]

I just love Cox. That's my favorite part of the internet. I'm on Cox for several hours a day, every day. You might say I'm a Cox addict. If Cox wants to deliver a friendly payload during my regular service, I don't find that hard to swallow. I'm quite pleased when Cox injects this sort of material for me and I'm always eager for more. If you haven't tried Cox, you really should. There's nothing quite so fulfilling or satisfying as Cox.

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Re:Is this News?

[religious freak]

Just remember to pay your bill. Otherwise they'll cut off your Cox.

Re:Is this News?

[RMingin]

So... Your Cox has been down more than you'd like, and you can't get your Cox to stay up? Getting rid of it entirely is an option, I suppose, but I keep hearing about medications that claim to keep your Cox up any time you want it up.

Re:Is this News?

[Kjella]

So... Your Cox has been down more than you'd like, and you can't get your Cox to stay up? Getting rid of it entirely is an option, I suppose, but I keep hearing about medications that claim to keep your Cox up any time you want it up.

Well his email is down, so he hasn't been getting any of the many, many, many offers to fix this.

Re:Is this News?

[TWX]

If someone's stealing cable from your service line, are they sucking your COX?

Re:Is this News?

[Anonymous Coward]

Enough already with the Cox sucking stories.

Why do we never hear about Virgin going down.?