🚀 go-pugleaf

On 16 Jul 1998 17:51:30 -0500, airborne@wizvax.net (Willie Williams)
wrote:

>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.


I continue to tear up reading your woesome story.  Do you really think
that Internet Service can be compared to basic utilities such as
natural gas and electricity?  Internet service is a l-u-x-u-r-y.