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Re: MCI billing fraud ... again

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Jul 22 14:20:08 2005

Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:19:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <010001c58ee8$098d76f0$6701a8c0@dax>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

>
> Thus spake "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
> >> We're being hit up by MCI's billing fraud again.
> >
> > mci's billing problems are gross ineptitude, not fraud.  and just
> > about every major (and many minor) telco has the same mess.
>
> "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity."

If its well known that your A/R is a fairy tale (or horror fiction), but
you continue to book it as revenue, how is that not fraud?

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