<b>Charter Communications Phone Support:</b> Can I ask why you you have decided to leave us? Maybe there's something that we can do...<br><i><b>Me:</b> Because you have changed our connection to use wildcard DNS, which breaks everything.</i><br>
<b>Charter Communications Phone Support:</b> ...<br><i><b>Me: </b>Do you know what wildcard DNS is?</i><br><b>Charter Communications Phone Support: </b>No, sorry...<br><i><b>Me: </b>Do you know what DNS is?</i><br><b>Charter Communications Phone Support: </b>Uh... no...<br>
<i><b>Me: </b>Lol... I don't think there's much you can do for me...</i><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jeff Hubbs <<a href="mailto:hbbs@comcast.net">hbbs@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">But Jeff's comment is entirely germane. We as consumers are dealing<br>
with diminished service and value. I've been victimized by the<br>
ILEC-vs.-CLEC thing (DSL service disappeared entirely and no path for<br>
nor hope of redress) before and Bellsouth was responsible. The FCC is<br>
one agency that is supposed to be a guardrail for this sort of behavior<br>
yet that agency, like so many others, have been rigged by this<br>
Administration and its President.<br>
<br>
One can only stand around and decry the technological abuses for so<br>
long; they are the way they are because some people decided it would be<br>
so and other people allowed it. It isn't political to call that out;<br>
it's rational.<br>
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Dan Lambert wrote:<br>
> Sorry to have to say so, Jeff, but I am rather tired of you injecting<br>
> politics into every discussion you can. It seems you never miss a chance<br>
> to inject whatever negative you can about your chosen demon.<br>
><br>
> If I wanted to be a member of a political forum, I would have joined<br>
> one.<br>
><br>
> I happen to have strong political opinions of my own, but I do<br>
> everything I can to make my posts on this list about Linux and it's<br>
> associated trials and tribulations.<br>
><br>
> If I wanted to, I could load this list with political diatribes about<br>
> various and sundry politicos and their cronies. I don't. Please do<br>
> likewise.<br>
><br>
> Dan<br>
><br>
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:07 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Well it was a specious argument anyway because it assumes that the phone<br>
>> company plays nice the way it is supposed to by law.<br>
>><br>
>> By law the people that own the wire (ILEC = Incumbent Local Exchange<br>
>> Carrier) were supposed to open it up to resellers (CLEC = Competitive<br>
>> Local Exchange Carrier) in exchange for being allowed to sell long<br>
>> distance. What the ILECs did instead is pretend they were "open" but<br>
>> then do everything they could to sabotage the CLECs (e.g. not doing the<br>
>> central office connections in a timely fashion) so that CLECs couldn't<br>
>> really make a go of anything other than business connections.<br>
>><br>
>> Unfortunately the FCC which was supposed to insure this didn't happen<br>
>> got taken over by Dubya appointees and suddenly it didn't matter that<br>
>> the ILECs weren't complying.<br>
>><br>
>> You're supposed to have a choice but you don't really for the most part.<br>
>> Witness the poster who has DSL from AT&T but for some reason can't get<br>
>> it from any of the resellers because of the way it is provisioned.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
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