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Re: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Mon Dec 29 07:36:28 2008

To: Skywing <Skywing@valhallalegends.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:36:21 -0500
In-Reply-To: <982D8D05B6407A49AD506E6C3AC8E7D6BFEEA2A5BC@caralain.haven.nynaeve.net>
	(Skywing@valhallalegends.com's message of "Fri,
	26 Dec 2008 22:36:52 -0600")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org


Skywing <Skywing@valhallalegends.com> writes:

> Always have to waste a minute for it to decide that it's going to
> punt to a real person.  It would be nice if there was a way to
> bypass it.

A lot (but not all) of them are implemented in such a way that they
will yield encouraging results if you start dropping f-bombs on them.
Avoiding an arrest for disorderly conduct if you are on your cell
phone in public is left as an exercise to the reader.

-r




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