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Re: My damn modem (or Merit's damn connection)

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From: John Palmer
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 15:38
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In article <BtpKEH.703@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
"
"Considering your prior behavior, John, you're hardly in a position to
"be making demands of the universities.  WSU spends its money to
"provide services to its students, staff, faculty, and customers.  It
"just happens that they haven't bothered to turn off their Merit
"dialins to non-paying folks.  It's quite possible that buying a 5890
"is helping more students, staff, and faculty than buying a rack of
"V.32bis modems.

They get money from Merit (not alot) to provide certain services to
the public. I paid a HELL of a lot of single business tax last year
as well as state personal income tax, so I'm only asking for what I
paid for. 

I wasn't demanding either, just criticizing. 

What "behavior" are you talking about. We provide many services to 
the public (news feeds for a token fee only, USENET access for a 
token fee, a 6gb  archive of PD software and other files available
by anonymous UUCP, etc, and the list goes on). Is this the "behavior"
that you criticize?? Or are you one of those idiots who still beleives
the b.s. that other people say on the net.
 
I have done NOTHING to warrant your attitude. I am taking you to task,
mister. You had better explain what "behavior" you are talking about, 
otherwise we'll all know that you're just another one of those 
assholes.
 
John Palmer
(tired of getting kicked around and ready to start kicking back!)


"
"Then again, if you were to donate such a group of modems, I'm sure
"they wouldn't turn you down.
"

I have tried and they said no. I had a rack of 12 Telebit T3000's
that I (my now-defunct business) was going to donate. They said
"no thank you".

"-- 
"Marc Unangst                | Real men don't make backups.  Real men never
"mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | accidentally delete files that they're going
"                            | to need later.
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From: jp@tygra.Michigan.COM (John Palmer)
Subject: Re: My damn modem (or Merit's damn connection)
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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 15:38:01 GMT
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