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Re: netcom the worst

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From: John Sanger
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <30e8a111.13965505@news> us001520@interramp.com (Cary Africk) writes:
>On 30 Dec 1995 05:03:03 GMT, chi-tu@ix.netcom.com(Honus Wagner )
>wrote:
>
>>Netcom advertises that it is a nationwide server,it has large corporate
>>accounts and has tech support........well this is my experience with
>>Netcom in the past three months:
>>
>>In the past three months I have had:
>>48 GPF's
>>51 Unexpected Loss of Controls
>>18 Nites of being unable to send e-mail
>>2 occassions when my messages were erased
>>38 occassions when IRC was cancelled
>>18 tries, the maximum, to get connected
>>11 letters to Tech support unanswered
>>2 days of not being told that my POP phone number had changed hence I
>>couldn;t sign on.
>>2 days of no service....and assorted other headaches I can;'t
>>remember...oh yes....it took me almost 2 hours to downlaod Netscape
>>with a 14.4 modem..not the fastest but not that shabby either.
>>
>>And they have the audacitiy to still charge for what they call service.
>>By the way.....I quit tonite....go ahead somebody out there...call me a
>>whiner and I call you an idiot.
>>
>>Frank
>
>Frank,
>
>I was just wondering, although everyone seems to agree that Netcom is
>the worst, have you or anyone else for that matter heard of who is the
>best?  I'm using PSI, and aside from some horrendous problems with
>their news servers, the service seems to be 100% OK.
>
>Everyone asks for a recommendation... Any ideas for Essex/Bergen
>counties?
>
>Cary
>
Sorry but over 240,000 individuals do not agree that "Netcom is the
worst".  It is only the whiners who cannot understand their own
computers that are saying that.  You know the people who have trouble
dialing the operator on the telephone.... ;^)

As a matter of fact "Netcom is the BEST ISP in the USA".

--
Ciao!
	John S. 8^{)>
	teddybur@netcom.com
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From: teddybur@netcom.com (John Sanger)
Subject: Re: netcom the worst
Date: 1996/01/02
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