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Joseph,

You are most astute.
Also, it seems that TEXAS.NET likes to make up phony names and
respond.  Is this more trickery?

Rsj


Joseph Robert Williams III wrote:

> In article <6bjh68$r14$1@news3.texas.net>, MB <msimon@texas.net> wrote:
> >You are always entitled to your opinion, especially in a newsgroup. I grant
> >you that. I have a couple of questions and/or comments for you, however,
> >regarding your rant.
>
> Can I play?  Thanks.
>
> >What company does NOT think that his or hers is the best of its' kind? I
> >don't see Jonah or any of the other employees of Texas Net in the newspapers
> >or television publicly slamming their competition. This is a newsgroup.
> >Based on what I have seen, just about anything goes. Why on EARTH would the
> >president of a company *not* want to speak his mind?
>
> First the newsgroup then the Media, we've seen plenty of examples
> of that phenomena in these newsgroups.
>
> >I am an employee-owner of my company. You can be damn sure that I dislike my
> >competitor's and will make jokes about them and their weaknesses. You can
> >also be assured that I believe that my company is the best. It's called
> >pride.
> Its also called myopia.
>
> >>I still haven't seen you or others sell Texas Net based on what is
> >offerred, rather than how you can run down the other services.
> >
> >Have you seen anybody ASK what the offers are? I haven't. I'm sure that,
> >given the opportunity, you would receive a full run-down of their services
> >without mention of other ISPs. Consider the response in relation to the
> >topic.
>
> Most of the time the conversation goes like this:
>
>      potential customer asks for some ISP product information.
>   Two or three ISP's answer the question politely.
>     Texas.net employee slam the answering ISPs.
>   One of them makes the texas.net person look like a fool.
>     Jonah comes out of his box and slams them.
>   They retaliate.
>
> Repeat the above until the anti-texas.net people take over the thread.
>
> Then there is the point the other teenagers over at texas.net quits
> engaging in the pointless prattle and the thread dies.
>
> -Joe
>
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> [Inter|Use]net: jbw@seas.smu.edu                 Joesph Robert Williams
>             Stick that in your cut buffer and paste it!