[97476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Fri Jun 15 20:49:32 2007
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:48:39 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20070615141750.22A0E4B6@resin11.mta.everyone.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:17:50 -0700
"Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com> wrote:
> If Joe Sixpack has a Mac, calls his ISP for help, is told the ISP only supports Micro$loth, asks for escalation and can't get that (or even doesn't ask for escalation) I would think Joe would move to another ISP. Thus my earlier statement that the ISP which does this we-support-Micro$loth-only crazyness is doomed to failure.
Perhaps I have just been unlucky when dealing with the big guys. Not
that I mind since I run a small ISP and I am happy to skim the
one-tenth of one percent of their users that won't put up with that
shit. However, it isn't going to make any dent in their business.
--
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net> | Democracy is three wolves
http://www.druid.net/darcy/ | and a sheep voting on
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