[ale] OT: DSL with no phone number

[Greg]

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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of James
> P. Kinney III
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:53 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: DSL with no phone number
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> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 21:33, Jim Philips wrote:
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> > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:21 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> > > Adrin wrote:
> > > > Reminds me of the cable hack.
> > > >
> > > > someone figured out that when you order cable broadband you got a
> > > > cable signal with it. Some people put in a special splitter and got
> > > > free cable.  The Cable companies were not to happy.  I don't know
> > > > what ever became of it.
> > >
> > > These days jail time.
> > 
> > 
> > And an unbelievably guilty conscience...  ;-)
> 
> Maybe I'm "conscience challenged" but once it's inside the walls of my
> house, it's mine! If they don't like it, they should filter it at the

oh, I see you subscribe to the Canadian philosophy.

> pole outside my property line so there is no chance I might
> misunderstand what is mine and what is theirs.
> 
> That's sort of my view on all open air transmissions as well. If the
> cable company wants to provide more service than what I'm contacted to
> pay for, that is their choice. It sure keeps me from looking at "the
> dish". :)
> 
>  I do it all the time with my clients. It's keeps them happy when I do
> something for them thats a bit special and don't charge them for it. I
> think of it as a relationship building experience. One clients Nextel
> email account got clogged with spam one day and he was on the road
> waiting for an important email. He called and asked me to log into his
> account and dump the crap so he could get the important stuff. I have
> often handled a crappy email attachment (usually a word doc that is a
> wrong version) just to help out. Keeps my people happy.
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