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- From: clifto@indep1.UUCP (Cliff Sharp)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: external vs internal on 14.4k
- Message-ID: <2219@indep1.UUCP>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 18:20:48 GMT
- References: <68568@cup.portal.com> <BwwCr8.5Eq@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <4441@wet.UUCP>
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- In article <4441@wet.UUCP> realmer@wet.UUCP (Sean B. Straw) writes:
- >ALL the time), it'll delay just as long at 9600 -- and you get charged that
- >much more for the time. Sometimes I wonder why I bother maintaining my CIS
- >account...
-
- I dropped my account with them several years ago when, after an impeccable
- record of prompt payment, they suddenly shut off my account. Customer service
- said that I had a $300/month limit, period; they absolutely would not raise
- that amount (I wasn't on a credit card account, it was strictly cash). After
- many of the network delays you mention, and many other problems with them, I
- finally decided that if they didn't want to take my money I had no further
- reason to deal with the arrogant sons-of-turkeys. I reduced my usage to the
- absolute minimum; there was a $5/month charge for keeping the account open,
- whether you used the $5 worth of time or not. Then one month I was _one week_
- late mailing my ($5!) payment and got an _extremely_ nasty dunning letter; that
- was the absolute last straw.
- Despite the fact that they have an enormous amount of good stuff on the
- system, support groups for Borland, Microsoft, etc., discussions on just about
- any old thing, and the fact that I met a number of very nice people on the
- system, Compuserve will never again see a cent of _my_ money.
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