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In article <34D3D129.FD36AD11@texas.netNOSPAM>, Dusty Rhodes
<terra@texas.netNOSPAM> wrote:
: BTW, I *know* the letter you keep bleating about. It's a form letter. I
: got one when I used a pinger to keep my connection alive so a friend
: could easily find my FTP daemon. The letter informed me that this was a
: violation of the TOS. So I read the TOS. Guess what? It was a clear
: violation. No threats, no BS, just a message asking me to follow the
: guidelines in the future and what could happen if I refused.
: 
: The language was blunt, but hardly threatening. Besides, when I called
: to get details, they were very helpful and explained everything in a
: friendly and professional manner. I haven't heard a peep since. Guess
: it's all in how you approach things.
: 

I have one simple observation and a question to go with it...the traffic
of austin.internet for most of the year has been at 5-15 message a
day...in the past few days it has hit upon 50 a day.

Do these people really deserve that much attention and bandwidth?
Everybody here seems to have said there piece and get on with some more
meaningful conversations. This type of stuff seems more of a
austin.internet.advocacy group of some sort...any way to set that up?

I personally would like to see more discussion around internet
technologies, who has them here in Austin, who doesn't, help with setting
up internet software, etc...and SANE discussions about OTHER ISPs in town.
I would like to hear from people at IO, at Jump Net, IBM.net, Austin360,
etc...

My only comment about this whole Texas.Net whining festival is that I
think in my case (August, I believe), I did unknowingly violate their TOS
(I finally traced the problem to a problem in my TCP/IP stack that was
fixed) by staying online after disconnecting for an entire week, but was
never sent an email, a letter, or any other notice. I did call, and
Texas.Net WAS very professional over the phone, and WAS very helpful,
especially Mr. Bill.

Just my two cents.

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