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Who's this ask nicely dude!!
What a bunch of bull-shit.
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In article <5qufl7$ncr$2@nntp2.ba.best.com>, jamesd@echeque.com (James A.
Donald) wrote:

> From time to time best.com slows down til it is like a snail
> struggling uphill through molasses on a winter morning.
> 
> And the dang irritating thing is that they lie about it.
> 
> at 5:54PM I did a comparison run.
> 
> I downloaded the file http://tucows.abac.com/tucows/files/msie302r.exe
> through jps.net,
> 
> Download proceeded at 2kb per second.
> 
> I then switched back to best.com, did the same download.  Download
> proceeded at 0.3 kb per second, with frequent lengthy pauses where the
> system seemed hung.
> 
> Repeated this experiment with under windows 3.1 as well as NT 4.0
> 
> Repeated this experimetn with different best.com points of presence.
> 
> So then I phoned best.com
> 
> I got the run around:  Random stupid fiddling with my settings,
> fiddling which I knew could not possibly make any difference, since
> the problem was obviously at best, followed by "Well, you must have a
> problem with your modem."  During the this phase I repeatedly
> connected with best through diverse POPs with unvaryingly the same
> result --  slow by a factor of ten or a hundred. 
> 
> Best denied that they had any problem.
> 
> After this lengthy run around "Hey, you must have a problem with your
> hardware or settings, it cannot possibly be our problem", I then
> reconnected with jps.net, where as before I got downloads at normal
> speed.
> 
> Best:  You have a problem.  Admit it, and tell us what you are going
> to do about it.
> 
> Stop lying about it.  It is your problem.  It is not the customers
> problem.  Fix it.
> 
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> of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this 
> right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.
> 
> http://www.jim.com/jamesd/      James A. Donald       jamesd@echeque.com