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Re: Road Runner

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From: Willie Williams
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:00
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Chet Seidel (Chetter@att.net) wrote:

>How sad...that anybody would care about something like this.  I am
>getting RR service at the first possible moment it is available (which
>ought to be this fall by their prediction).  This dial up crap is for
>the birds.

Actually, the sad part is that these things actually occur.  I agree
100% with you that cable connections are better than dial-up.  I would
go so far to say that they are in entirely seperate classes when it
comes to usefulness.

However, it because these services are so much better, and because
there is absolutely no competition in this field that these types of
abuses are taking place. 

Just how far do you think Niagra Mohawk would get if they told people
they will not support gas ovens any more because some people disuse
them and there could be an explosion that would damage their lines?
How far do you think would get if they decided to start peeking in
customer's windows to see if they still had a gas oven?  How far do
you think they would get if they shut off the people who complained?

These are the type of things that one company controling a given area
is trying to do, and its just plain wrong.  Someone had to stand up
and say so, and I am that person.


--
Willie Williams 
airborne@wizvax.net
http://www.wizvax.net/airborne/roadrunner/complaint.html
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From: airborne@wizvax.net (Willie Williams)
Subject: Re: Road Runner
Date: 1998/07/16
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