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Article #48Fed up with Seattle Online!!!
From: wendor
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:00
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:00
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I don't know about any of you out there, but I am really fed up with Bruce King and the way he runs Seattle Online (polari). I have been a paying customer of his for some time now and have had nothing but trouble. When I set up my News/Mail feed for my machine (eisley) it took over a month for Bruce to get my feed working properly. Then he changed it without notifying me and started feeding me 47 more groups than I wanted. Good thing I wasn't paying for an hourly connection!!! Then he started having problems with mail. Currently over 75% of all mail outbound from my system causes waring from uucp messages from polari telling me that polari has been unable to connect to an upstream site and that our mail may be killed. Phone conversations with people have confirmed that almost 30% of our mail has not made it to the intended distinations. This is ridiculous. And now today I find that ALL of polari's data lines and the voice line have been disconnected. If this is a temporary problem then I would have thought that Bruce would have been professional enough (laugh!) to have notified his customers (by voice if necessary). Personally however, I think that Mr. King has skipped town with his customer's money!!! If you are out there Bruce, I would like very much for you to please cancel all services for eisley and my personal account (wendor) as well. I would further demand a pro-rated refund of funds payed and will not allow any further charges to my credit card for your non- existant services!!! I would like to further encourage any of you out there who have also been misfortunate enough to have been one of Bruce's customers to also demand refunds and move to other systems. I can strongly reccommend (sp?) Seanews and Halcyon as alternatives to Seattle Online (or should that be Seattle Offline ???) I have also heard good things about eskimo and nwnexus I believe. Please direct communications/replies to my e-mail address as my feed for this group was through polari. I will be arranging for new service ASAP with someone more professional and honest than Bruce King. Thank you all for listening. - Chuck Gladu - Sysop Mos Eisley Spaceport BBS wendor@eisley.akita.com wendor@halcyon.com and formerly wendor@polari.online.com - ..
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Newsgroups: seattle.admin,seattle.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nwnexus!wendor From: wendor@halcyon.com Subject: Fed up with Seattle Online!!! Message-ID: <1992Aug17.010040.23522@nwnexus.WA.COM> Originator: wendor@halcyon.com Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer) Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service Distribution: seattle Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:00:40 GMT Lines: 50