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- From: sonp@ix.netcom.com (Laz Qadmon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Any way to fight the phone company?
- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 15:49:49 GMT
- Organization: Netcom
- Message-ID: <4fuam1$eo6@reader2.ix.netcom.com>
- References: <4es3dm$t69@gti.gti.net> <4f43o6$5u7@zaphod.galaxy.net> <4f5hqd$2o6@fieldday.mn.org>
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- sewilco@fieldday.mn.org (Scot E. Wilcoxon) wrote:
-
- >In article <4f43o6$5u7@zaphod.galaxy.net>, <rmeizlik@galaxy.net> wrote:
- >>oh, and check the wiring in your house on your second line. It could
- >>just be loose/corroded.........................................................etc
-
- .
- >Scot E. Wilcoxon sewilco@fieldday.mn.org
- > Laws are society's common sense, written down for the stupid.
- > The stupid refuse to read. Their lawyers read to them.
-
- Do you mean to say that you know a lawyer who can actually read?
- I scraped out a cow pond last year. I found higher life forms in the
- scrapings that I find in most lawyers offices.
-
- Re: Telco service. Out here in GTE land we are still using party
- lines! Trying running a 911 system when those exist in your county.
- GTE sez we're too small to be worth the cost to get modernized.
- Caller id is light years away they tell us.
-
- I sometimes tell them that scratching on stone tablets and passing
- them around is better than the service they provide.
-
-
- I once had SWBT as an account and serviced their dp equipment.
- They screamed louder than any other customers when the equipment
- went down. Even if they weren't using it they demanded immediate
- service. Always when a residence called for service it was laughable
- how they responded. Working on Tele Processing equipment back in
- the 60's when the business site had a common carrier problem we would
- scream back at telco. This would maybe get us an "installer" maybe the
- next day if we were lucky. It took days of escalation before a real
- tech would show up and even then we had to spoon feed him the
- symptoms before he could even start to believe they had a problem. The
-
- result was they would disappear for a while and suddenly the probem
- would go away. When we spoke to the tech he would say "no we didn't
- do anything, must have been your problem". Working with people
- like this was not fun. I gather that things have not changed much
- after all these years.
-
-