[46110] in Cypherpunks
Re: Zensoren ueber Alles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin])
Sat Dec 30 01:14:12 1995
From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: tallpaul@pipeline.com (tallpaul)
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 00:04:01 -0600 (CST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512300548.AAA02407@pipe8.nyc.pipeline.com> from "tallpaul" at Dec 30, 95 00:48:32 am
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
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This "Tall Paul" fellow said:
> Based on other news reports, I conclude that CompuServe lied in both areas.
So? Companies lie all the time - the bigger the company, the bigger the
lie, in my experience. Companies are like governments - they will get
away with what they can until caught. Even then, they rarely stop - it
just goes undercover.
> It did none of these things. It cut off all customers to an enormous number
> of groups. It inferrentially violated property rights (i.e. contracts) to
> customers promised internet access and now provided only a crippled version
> thereof. And it lied about the whole thing.
Again, so? All that it will do is to drive people away from Compu$erve
into the arms of other service providers. Maybe some of them will even
figure out what a *real* ISP is...
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