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Re: netcom the worst

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From: Wotan
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 00:00
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In article <slvrmnDKG0ns.6vn@netcom.com>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@netcom.com> wrote:
>Hey Loony Johnny, come answer this post. And let's have a few of your 
>famous apologies.

At a guess Al I would say his phone connection is the root of most of his 
problems.  Combined with the likelihood he is using the bug infested 
Netluser software.  

2 hours to download Netscape with a 14.4 modem gives an indication that 
either he has something misconfigured with his modem or a real noisy 
line.  Noisy lines are prone to disconnections.  

Abrubt disconnections cause problems for many computers.  Combined with 
the somewhat unstable Netcruiser interface he is practically gauranteed 
thiings like GPF's and Loss of Control errors.  A topic discussed 
frequently in the netcrusier groups.  Its such a prevalent problem that 
even Netcom is reccomending people experienceing these problems to switch 
to the "unsupported" Winsock apps.  

A for his posts going missing; did he post spam, try to post to a 
moderated group, or did he post innapropriately to a domain such as 
christnet - where even Steve Winter now admits innapropriate or offensive 
material can and will be deleted?

Or was he posting to invalid newsgroups like he did in this thread.  4 
invalid newsgroups in the newsgroups line.  And one of these was most 
likely the moderated netcom.announce just misspelled.

Two days lack of service.  Netcom was down for two days this month due to 
the weather in CA.  And was down several times over the past three months 
for upgrades - all of which was mentioned in the motd.

No apologizing there Al.  Just reality.  
-- 
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.
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From: wotan@netcom.com (Wotan)
Subject: Re: netcom the worst
Date: 1995/12/31
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