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Article #3164Re: NETCOM acount deleted "accidentally", please read
From: Phil Haseltine
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 01:20
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 01:20
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In article <donbD66Gp6.C8I@netcom.com> donb@netcom.com (Don Baldwin) writes: >However, I also had about 5 megabytes of files stashed there, including >personal e-mail from my 12 years in programming. Much of the data >stored there was irreplacable. I've called NETCOM a good dozen times, >no doubt running up my phone bill since I now live in Iowa. I've sent >e-mail about the missing files to support@netcom.com twice; the first >time, a reply said that they were looking into it, the second message >received no reply. This is why shell accounts are useless. Go with a provider that supports SLIP or the newer PPP. Your 5 Mb of data will reside on your own PC, not theirs. All you have to do is backup...:-) Phil
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