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Telstra out of control (none@none.au) wrote:

I despise posters who don't have enough guts to identify themselves
particularly if they're asking to be taken seriously. If you can't sign your
own name to a statement that you insist has such gravity then I can only
assume that you are neither responsible or to be trusted.

: To finish, the quote of the week

: "What's a BBS?" - Communications Minister Michael Lee, Fri 15th
: December 1995.

You would also do much better credibility-wise not to misrepresent him. He
most certainly did know what a BBS was when I spoke to him (face-to-face)
about the issue in question at about 10am on that morning.

He indicated that your complaint (under your real name, of course!) should
be filed with the relevant body empowered by the government to review such
matters (i.e. Austel). If you're going to get something done about it, do it
through appropriate channels and let "due process" take it from there.

Posting rubbish like that quoted above is neither helpful or constructive,

	michael

Telstra out of control (none@none.au) wrote:
: By now I assume most of the sysop community have received Telstra's
: notification of the higher charging. We now know that they abused the
: volonteer Australian BBS registry to get their list of 'victims'.

Sounds typical.

: 
: They say that one advantage available with the business charging
: scheme, is access to telstra's 'rapid response technician teams'.
: 
: Well, if every sysop in Australia rings up every second day and asks
: for a rapid response team to 'check out my lines' Telstra will get the
: message pretty quickly.
: 
: This is a hugely ill informed decision by Telstra, which will result
: in false  economy, and is a betrayal of a loyal bbs community.
: 
: It makes you wonder if we are being called upon to subsidise Telstra's
: less than satisfactory 'joint ventures' with Microsoft, and News Ltd. 

That joint venture will be the end of A LOT of things as we use them now.
They want NO competition whatsoever and will do anything they can to 
remove any.

: 
: Furthermore Frank Blount is on the record as saying:
: 
: 1. We plan to move business customers over to time charging as it will
: be cost effective for the business market, with most business calls of
: short duration etc.

They keep trying.  Why is it they've never gotten away with it so far?


: 
: 2. The offenders [in reference to extended duration local calls] are
: mainly modem and fax users.

That's an offence now is it?

: 
: If we put 1 & 2 together, Telstra's grand plan is to get all bbs calls
: onto time charging. Roll on Optus.
: 
: I don't suppose making it more difficult/costly to call your local BBS
: or ISP, would help make the currently ailing "On Australia" more
: attractive.=?
: 
: Telstra, being owned by the taxpayer,  have gone WAY beyond their
: charter, and need to be pulled back.
: 
: To finish, the quote of the week
: 
: "What's a BBS?" - Communications Minister Michael Lee, Fri 15th
: December 1995.
: 
: 
: 

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