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Re: Is there anyone at Netcom with a clue

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven J. Sobol)
Mon Mar 1 21:29:24 1999

Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:26:23 -0500
From: "Steven J. Sobol" <sjsobol@nacs.net>
To: Phil Howard <phil@whistler.intur.net>,
	Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199903012359.RAA11033@whistler.intur.net>; from Phil Howard on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 05:58:59PM -0600

On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 05:58:59PM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> trying to collect a past due account (since I had to cut off payment
> to get them cut off, it would look to their books like unpaid).  He
> then said he had a copy of my resume and asked me if I might be
> interested in working for them.  I related my experiences to him
> and asked if the problems had been corrected, yet.  He said he didn't
> know.  I said it probably wasn't the place for me to work.  He then
> said "probably not".
> 
> It's corporate culture.  Beware.
> 
> OTOH, I get relatively little spam from Netcom.  Go figure.

They seem to have finally gotten the clue last year, having dumped a couple
big spammers.

But they CONTINUE to send back auto-acks to spam complaints that make them
look like they are run by a bunch of untrained monkeys.


-- 
Steve Sobol sjsobol@nacs.net (AKA support@nacs.net and abuse@nacs.net)

    "The world is headed for mutiny/When all we want is unity"
          --Creed, "One"



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