| Art Alexion on 28 Oct 2007 05:59:28 -0000 |
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On Saturday, 27 October 2007 20:12, Eugene Smiley wrote: > Oh, yes! I am oh so satisfied with being sodomized by defacto > monopolies. They only think that they have 25 million "satisfied" customers > because they never hear them complaining. > > I'd love to see Comcast do a survey of all 25 million customers to get the > real story, but alas, it'll never happen. Ignorance is bliss. I once read on this list a note from a comcast customer who had their connection closed for a couple of days by comcast for using too much bandwidth. Comcast refused to define what was "too much". I never read the comcast TOS, but I pointed out that if the "agreement" (only a federal judge, late of a large law firm with mostly corporate clients could call it an "agreement" with a straight face) doesn't provide defined limits, then there are no limits, and he should complain. He responded that he feared that complaining would cause them to shut down his connection longer, perhaps permanently. Now that is how people respond to de facto monopolies. They act like the old man of fiction who is afraid to complain about the neighbor kids who throw stones at his house because that may cause them to throw bricks the next time. A satisfied customer? Does the old man enjoy the pebbles just because they aren't bricks? -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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