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Bob Reardon wrote;

> I know all too well about uncaring ISP's and their attempts to silence
> critics. I live in Glens Falls, NY and used to have Global1 (now
> Global2000) for my ISP. They had lots of trouble with their
> connections in Glens Falls, many times not exceeding 9600 baud or was
> completely down for hours at a time. They had a listserv mailing list
> called Go-Talk-Discussion that many of us would use to voice our
> complaints about their lousy connections.  They would always blame the
> problem on NYNEX or equipment not delivered and never once offered to
> give a pro-rated refund when the question was asked by dissatisfied
> customers. To top it all off they sold their domain name to a German
> ISP and became Global2000. This was a disaster for a few folks who had
> businesses with links all over the world to their web pages at
> Global1.

That's what happened.  I was following some sites including the Post Star
and all of a sudden I couldn't find these sites.  When this sort of thing
happens I am in the habit of following the chain to the source and all of a
sudden I am on some German site.  Always wondered what that was about. 
Wonder how much they got to sell thier identity.
 
> ISP's are a mostly unregulated business where you don't have much
> recourse when you get bad service other than to jump ship like I did
> with GlobalShitheads. TimeWarner has the cable franchise here in Glens
> Falls but they aren't talking about when they'll have the RoadRunner
> service, if they ever will.
> 


Thanks for solving one mystery Bob.

Regards,

Jim
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