Re: [TCLUG:7136] cable modem or DSL

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting Dan Willenbring (dwillen@mn.mediaone.net):
> If DSL is available, get it.  I have had MediaOne service for almost a year
> now, and I have been without service countless days.  Something always seems
> to be broken, and no one has the slightest idea how to fix it.  The e-mail
> server was so bogged down last week, I had to get up at 6:00 am to check my
> e-mail, after 6:00 pm when I got home from work it was too slow to send me
> even one of my e-mails, it told me how many I had, but that was as far as it
> got...  Their service dies fairly frequently as well, and you have no
> alternate numbers or anything to try, you're just sol.

I think this is because MediaOne does not have a very good anti-spam policy or
does not enforce it very well. Looking at my logs today, I have gotten over
32,000 spam mail messages from MediaOne networks.

:-)

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