[PLUG] verizon people are lacking technical support

[Fred K Ollinger <follinge@sas.upenn.edu>]

I just got a call from verizon offering me services. They don't know what
they are offering. It's like asking a car dealer whether the car has an
air conditioner or not.

I asked them about the rumor that they block certain ports. Three people
didn't know. I told them I wanted to run a webserver. They still couldn't
help me. One man said that, "he didn't think so."

Hmmm...now I call back and they deny ever having said that. I know that
trick.

They kept trying to sign me up. I offered to sign up if they would just
put it into writing, no ports blocked. I told them that if they didn't do
this then they were not offering, "true internet." After failing to sign
me up, THEY wanted to get off the phone. Here they were bothering me. :)

I suggest if anyone gets bugged about this, they ask the same questions.
30 days of having a free webserver could be nice. You probably won't get
one, but they will start to wise up (I would think) if they keep getting
asked the same questions.

All I wanted them to say was, "no." I didn't think I was going to change
the world. I even offered to clear their name, as I told them that I had
read this "rumor" about port blocking. I guess they like their name
sullied. :)

Fred Ollinger (follinge@sas.upenn.edu)
CCN sysadmin



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