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I think a boycott of AT&T for their unsportsmanlike behavior vis a vis
backing store would be quite a good thing.

The question arises of how to best boycott AT&T. Since most of us
can't avoid using AT&T software (for the moment), boycotting AT&T long
distance looks like a very good thing. I personally spend over $100 a
month on AT&T long distance. Thats over $1200 a year. Even people who
only spend $20 a month on long distance are spending $240 a year on
AT&T. US Sprint and other carriers are quite good these days; the
inconvenience involved is nearly zip. If a couple of thousand people
boycott AT&T, thats already a million dollars out of their pockets
just by stopping using them for long distance. If we can get ten
thousand people on the net to stop using that, we have a story that
the press will carry because denying even so big a company as AT&T a
few million in revenue is big.

In order to make the boycott stick well, it would be best if we set up
a list of those participating so it would be possible to show the
press and AT&T documentation of the boycott, and if someone wrote a
standard letter, to be sent to AT&T corporate headquarters, by each
boycotter informing them that they have terminated their long distance
service with AT&T BECAUSE of AT&T's policy of policing stupid patents.

There are hundreds of thousands of us on the net, folks! If only a few
percent of us were to boycott AT&T, our voices would be heard! This
isn't Apple, for which a few people quietly not buying their products
produces no tangible effect. This is AT&T, for which many of us can
demonstrate that we are spending thousands on them annually.

Now is the time for action, before any of this stupidity goes any
further.

Perry Metzger

PS Naturally, these opinions are my own, and in no way reflect those
of my employer or anyone else but me.