[ale] Bellsouth DSL "maintenence"

[miguel]

hmm.....what is PSC?

regards
-mig

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 13:07, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> As a reminder.. DSL isn't a regulated service, but BS is a regulated
> company. Please, anyone, everyone, _EVERY_ time you have an outage, send
> mail to the PSC in complaint. The PSC doesn't have any power over DSL,
> however regular complaints can make it more difficult for BS to get
> other things they want from the regulatory agency. (The recent
> long-distance approval.. for example)
> 
> I know way too many people inside bellsouth, and apparently they think
> things are just hunky-dory. The only way to rattle them is to get them
> in dutch with the PSC. For line trouble, getting the PSC involved has
> done amazing things in the past for me. (If anyone wants to hear the
> story of how I got a bellsouth customer relations agent to come have
> iced tea with my grandmother, buy me a beer and it's all yours)
> 
> -G
> 
> P.s. Sorry your having such trouble Ron.. but have you considered a
> sedative? We move slow here, and with good reason. Once upon a time
> before Air Conditioning, southerners _had_ to move slow. It was either
> that, or die of heat stroke. Sure, we have AC now, but Darwin's pendulum
> swings slowly..  Give us some time :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 08:20, Ronald Chmara wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 07:00  AM, Geof wrote:
> > > --- Ronald Chmara <ron at Opus1.COM> wrote:
> > >> <rant>
> > >> What the hell is it with Georgia?
> > >> It's the 21st century, damnit!
> > >
> > > Whoa now.  I'll say up front, I'm not a native
> > > Georgian, but I still take account of such statements.
> > >  The Atlanta area is pretty much the Silicon Valley of
> > > the south east.
> > >
> > > I will say that you're responding to posts that are
> > > dealing with the primary monopolies in this state,
> > > BellSouth and Cable companies.  My ISP is Speedfactory
> > > and I've never had an outage over a few minutes.
> 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> 
> > 
> 
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