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- Path: sparky!uunet!optilink!walsh
- From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
- Newsgroups: ba.politics
- Subject: Re: pressure those nasty Bay Area cable companies!
- Message-ID: <13763@optilink.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 23:33:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com>
- Distribution: ba
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
- Lines: 46
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- From article <1992Dec30.210516.27444@smsc.sony.com>, by markc@smsc.sony.com (Mark Corscadden):
- > ...Someone suggested ba.broadcast but reading
- > the stuff there it doesn't seem like the right choice of newsgroup.
-
- That's right, you might get flamed big time!
-
- > 1) Are you sick of the way your Bay Area cable company is treating
- > its customers - i.e. you?
-
- Yes, that's why I give no money to those morons, and I
- suggest that others do the same.
-
- > 2) Are you sick *enough* that you're interested in taking political
- > action to force the offending companies to mend their ways?
-
- No, I'm sick of people suggesting governmental intrusion
- everytime a business does something that they do not like.
-
- > By the way, my company is South Bay Cablevision. The service goes out
- > completely at least once a month, it seems...
- > To top it off, their number to call for problems
- > with service is always, always, always messed up...
- > Right, trouble with the phone system, trouble transmitting
- > the cable signal, *big* trouble with their billing computer ...
-
- Yep, and their ways will continue as long as they know that
- people like you will put up with it and will send them a
- check every month. What business would do otherwise?
-
- > South Bay's latest cute trick was to send out notices to *every* customer
- > in Mountain View that their service was about to be cut off for failure
- > to pay...
-
- And people willingly give these folks money? I would love to
- have a business where I treated people like crap and they sent
- me money for the priveledge. Actually, the DA would probably
- call this extortion if indeed they violated their contracts.
-
- > These cable companies need to be taken by the *nether regions* and shown
- > *frimly* how to do it right! And that don't mean doing it *to* us anymore!
-
- Yeah, hear ye, hear ye! Let's show them the strong arm of the law! :-)
- --
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