🚀 go-pugleaf

"pltrgyst" <pltrgyst@bellatlantic.net> wrote in message
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> "John Gilmer" <gilmer@crosslink.net> wrote in message
> news:3b784bb2$0$31890@dingus.crosslink.net...
> > There are two models of usenet:
> >
> > The first model is that of a quality newspaper "letters" page in which
> > people express their thoughts on recent events and other items of
interest
> > and SIGN their REAL names.
> >
> > The second model is that of a dirty "restroom" in an X rated theatre.
> > "People" just write what they please and insult whom they please.
>
> Your oversimplified view of the world makes no provision for those people
> who own their own domains, and who post or email from various addresses at
> those domains as a valid and effective communications management tool, and
> who now cannot do so. These addresses are just as "REAL" and directly
> associable with their owners as any ISP account.
>
> One of the reasons for owning a domain is to have a literally life-long
> valid email address, rather than what passes for "lifetime" in the
Internet
> world of collapsing dot-coms. Most hosting services offer POP or IMAP
> service only, not SMTP.
>
> I sent Verizon a long, polite letter of complaint about this new policy
and
> got back a page of the subject crapola signed by a PR person who wouldn't
> know SMTP from ordinary TP. I'm voting by terminating Verizon and going to
> Earthlink DSL.
>
> -- Larry

I would like to add to the rants mentioned in this thread. I know this
switches gears a little, but it still is Verizon. Anyway, my dad and I
walked into a Verizon Wireless store in hope that we could switch our phones
and plan from analog to digital. My dad being smart, had called Verizon on
several occasions previous to coming to the store to buy a plan and the
phones. He THOUGHT he had already selected a plan on the phone and all he
had to do was mention it to a sales rep in the store to actually purchase
the plan and purchase two phones. However, what happened is that the plan
that he was going to go on was closed to new members as of August 1st
according to the sales rep and the computer. So, my dad called Verizon
Wireless using the same number he had, and got told that the best plan for
him was the one he had mentioned to the sales rep. My dad mentioned this to
the sales rep inside the store, and the sales rep went took the phone.
Anyways, after over an hour, my dad finally got a plan, though not the plan
he wanted and for a little more than he wanted to pay. By the time we left
the store, we had been in there for over 90 minutes (the printers at Verizon
were going on the fritz at that time too). To sum up my rant, it is really
sad when the people on the phone and the people in the store are not on the
same page. It is simply ridiculous. This was yesterday. Today, my dad called
his Stock broker and told him to sell any Verizon stock that my dad may have
owned. He also vowed not to renew his contract after it expired next summer
(it would have cost him $180 to break the contract now). In the same
respect, their phone lines are so outdated at my house, that I can not
receive an internet connection of over 28800 bps because of my signal having
to go through too many analog-digital switches. Shit, when I go to college
next year, I hope I don't end up going to a place covered by Verizon in any
way whatsoever.

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