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In <1992Aug17.010040.23522@nwnexus.WA.COM> wendor@halcyon.com writes:

>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).

>And now today I find that ALL of polari's data lines and the voice line
>have been disconnected.

I won't comment on any of your other comments regarding polari.
However, regarding the data lines, it is likely to be a phone company
error.  I received a panicked call from a sysop of another public access
Unix site that had all their lines 'accidentally' disconnected today.  I
didn't give it more than a passing thought at the time, but now that I
find out polari has suffered the same fate, well, it's just obvious that
the phone company is involved in a conspiracy to eliminate the
competition as it moves into it's new role as an 'information provider'
:-) :-)

>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). 

Uh, that really is a laugh!  I have seen bruceki claim 3000 users.  Even
if that is an exaggeration by a factor of TEN, that would mean 300
users.  Would *you* like to try and call 300 users one day because there
was a temporary interruption of service?  Don't forget, many of them
won't have answering machines, which means either calling two phone #s
(home and work), calling them back, or even both, when you don't get
them on the first try.  I don't think the $25 or $35 per month that
bruceki charges for his service pays for that kind of personal
attention.  Compuserve and/or UUnet charge many-MANY times that amount,
and you won't see *them* calling subscribers if there is an interruption
in service!

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