[PRCo] Re: Mail to the Left Coast

[Fred Schneider]

And if you talk to your ISP you will probably get a lot of double- 
talk.   And if Derrick talks to his, he will probably also get a lot  
of "it ain't our problem, it's their problem."

Herb Brannon and Ed Lybarger went through this when Adelphia.Com was  
broken up.   I couldn't get messages to either of them, and it was  
particularly annoying going to Ed because Comcast own his end of it  
and they served me but the best they could say is, "We're working on  
it."   It was sort of a take off on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:   
"Some Day your Prince Will Come."   Some Day, but don't hold thy breath.

My friend Bruce Bente just went through a similar masacre when Bell  
South decided that they were not going to allow any other companies  
to use their DSL lines.   Dial up yes.   DSL no.   They sent him a  
registered letter telling him he had 48 hours to solve his  
problems.   Of course Bell South would be happy to accept him as a  
client.   But his modum ... after two hours talk to India and three  
hours on the phone to Costa Rica (we can't possibly hire  
Americans) ... it turns out is not serviced by Bell South.   So he  
has to also spend another $50 on their modum.   And in the process of  
installing Bell South's DSL software, gues what .... it erases part  
of the Windows operating system.    I've know this man since he was  
in college 48 years ago.   He is normally very even tempered.    
Normally.   This may have been an exception.   He also had to spend  
$100 on a computer technician in Asheville to reconfigure his computer.
Of course, for Bell South, t'aint our problem.

But understand guys, I wasn't sending anything to specific people to  
get around anyone.   I mailed everything to the list as always.

fws

On Dec 15, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Jim Holland wrote:

> Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> The Problem may be with your ISP, Jim. It's going through  
>> dementia.org
>> and coming back to me within two or three minutes.
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> I doubt it is the ISP.       Mail is received by the list and others
> receive it.       Mail Sent To Me at this box does Not go through the
> ISP  --  could be the org where this address is registered  --  b-u-t
> others have said that they send mail they never see!
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> Inet mystery!!
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> Reading the other posts and I see others are having problems!
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> Jim
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