🚀 go-pugleaf

On 20 Apr 2001 02:51:02 -0500, geoff_m@bigfoot.com.delete.nospam
(Geoff M) wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:03:34 +1200, bt <bt@memelabs.com.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>As for the problem of excessive use - easily fixed. State right when
>>people sign up what the download limit is - do not pull some shifty
>>change of policy AFTER the fact - classic bait and switch - or you
>>will likly find your fat arse in Court, IHUG.

> A favorite IHUG trick. 

Yup.

>I have a Starnet/satnet/ultra/ name-de-jour

Musical chairs with the name alright....

>satallite dish on the roof - I was one of the early adopters so paid
>for it. 

And where then, repeatedly, kicked in the guts by IHUG...

>Started off being fast and unlimited, and they have gradually
>added more and more conditions so it is total crap. 

Yes. You get the high speed - sorta. Sometimes anyhow...

But you cannot use it.

Why do people want high speed access ?

So they can download lots of files. Download big files.

And that is what you cannot DO much of with Ultra. Nowdays.

No one got ultra to download emails and newsgroups - newsgroups being
the 'free' service that they charge you for and yet you are not
allowed to complain about.... That other ISP's can have working
reliably for extended periods but IHUG cannot. That IHUG has fortified
it's own groups so that ex-customers cannot question or criticise
their policies from OUTSIDE their jurisdiction, and cannot INSIDE for
fear of punishments...

It's a farce.

I might make a web site about it...

>Hence, I currently
>have a standard dialup modem account with Quicksilver (Good!) for 2/3
>of Ihugs unreliable, overpriced dialup service.

Exactly. I wish more people would simply realise that IHUG has turned
crap in a big way. Maybe then, the woods cowboys would smarten their
act up.

I'll not hold my breath.

Perhaps you'd like to tell us all again how you KNOW certain ISP's
that are cheaper than you are going out of business 'any day now'
again, IHUG ? Perhaps you can put your feet up this time Tim, and
allow that gutless brother of yours to have a turn ? You know - the
brother who makes all these stupid policies you disagree with, yet
never lowers himself to the level of the people he runs rough shod
over ?

You know - Emperor Nick of the Sith ? Good old 'bend over and show me
your dark side' ?

Oh, and just for old times sake: I have crossposted this to
ihug.general. Oh, I know you have it all fortified nowdays - but when
people search for 'ihug.general', it'll show up....

Must piss you off.


Brendan.

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