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On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:17:43 -0400, "Edward M. Kennedy"
<NoSpam@Ham.com> wrote:

>"Susan Hogarth" <sjh@tribeagles.org> wrote
>
>> You've put your finger on the problem. Why should the taxpayers pay for
>*your*
>> no trespassing sign? That's between you and the phone company you do
>business
>> with.

	No, it's not.  No more than the no trepassing sign in my yard,
which carries weight and effect only because it's backed up by
criminal penalties enforced by the government.

>
>The funny part is that all these allegedly pissed-off
>people can't be bothered to call the phone company
>and bitch about this once a month.  If everyone did
>that, the phone company would have strong incentive
>to do something about it.

	They wouldn't do a thing and you know it.  And they couldn't,
legally, anyway.

>Every now and then around here, new management
>at a local TV station makes the mistake of cutting
>away from a local ACC basketball game.  Consumer
>reaction is swift and furious, the problem is quickly
>fixed, and profuse apologies are offered the next day.

	Irrelevant analogy.  That is a company changing its own
actions based on customer input, which is very different from asking
them to change someone else's actions, which they do not control.

>Phone companies have different types of market forces
>than TV stations, of course, but it seems to me that
>people around here care a lot more about basketball
>than they do telemarketing calls.  That's y'alls prerogative,
>of course, but instead of bitching on usenet you could
>always pick up the phone and offer to sell some ideas
>to some poor low level manager at ATT or Sprint or
>whatever.

	Yeh, that would be real effective.  Not.

>Be sure to call around dinnertime.
>
>--Ted
>


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