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In article <45qv7o$gdf@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, cyronwode@aol.com (Cyronwode) writes:
> Bob Izenberg wrote: 
>
>> Is AOL free?  If the original poster's complaint was that
>> the service for which they are presumably paying is a bad
>> value because it has poor Usenet propagation, and that a
>> free service which the poster has attempted to use has
>> policies that prevent her from so doing, then why did the
>> poster not pursue one of the other avenues available to
>> anyone with the coins to spend on Internet service
>> providers?
>
>Please re-read what i wrote. I don't need or use gatewayed
>e-mail-to-usenet services. I have no usenet propagation problem with AOL.
>I was trying to send a test message for a friend (whose ISP did have a
>propagation problem) through the UT gateway to see if HE could access an
>usenet newsgroup that way. I just wanted to help him out by geting some
>information for him. The reason that i got ticked off was that i thought
>the test had *failed*. Had i gotten a bounced mail message, i would have
>known that i could not MAKE the test from my domain. Some of you folks
>know enough about logic to understand why a dispositive result can be as
>valuable as a positive one and why it is annoying to get a report that
>seems dispositive but turns out to be simply...the void. 

Then how can you explain you tirade about demanding an explanation for this
and that, and demanding that Fletcher Maddox tell you who his immediate
supervisor is, and ranting about the availablility of a "publically" funded
service (by virtue of the fact that it is at a state univeristy)?  That is the
real issue that pissed people off.

You then attempted to deflect those glaring weaknesses in your presentation by
babbling on about a test message, and the lack of response.

Do I smell a KoTM nominee?  Just maybe......



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Matt Schnierle     pyld@oak.grove.iup.edu     http://www.ma.iup.edu/~pyld/
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