[ale] [rant] I dislike "we only support winblows/OS X"AT&T internet

[Brian Schenken]

*Charter Communications Phone Support:* Can I ask why you you have decided
to leave us?  Maybe there's something that we can do...
*Me: Because you have changed our connection to use wildcard DNS, which
breaks everything.*
*Charter Communications Phone Support:* ...
*Me: Do you know what wildcard DNS is?*
*Charter Communications Phone Support: *No, sorry...
*Me: Do you know what DNS is?*
*Charter Communications Phone Support: *Uh... no...
*Me: Lol... I don't think there's much you can do for me...*


On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:

> But Jeff's comment is entirely germane.  We as consumers are dealing
> with diminished service and value.  I've been victimized by the
> ILEC-vs.-CLEC thing (DSL service disappeared entirely and no path for
> nor hope of redress) before and Bellsouth was responsible.  The FCC is
> one agency that is supposed to be a guardrail for this sort of behavior
> yet that agency, like so many others, have been rigged by this
> Administration and its President.
>
> One can only stand around and decry the technological abuses for so
> long; they are the way they are because some people decided it would be
> so and other people allowed it.  It isn't political to call that out;
> it's rational.
>
>
>
> Dan Lambert wrote:
> > Sorry to have to say so, Jeff, but I am rather tired of you injecting
> > politics into every discussion you can. It seems you never miss a chance
> > to inject whatever negative you can about your chosen demon.
> >
> > If I wanted to be a member of a political forum, I would have joined
> > one.
> >
> > I happen to have strong political opinions of my own, but I do
> > everything I can to make my posts on this list about Linux and it's
> > associated trials and tribulations.
> >
> > If I wanted to, I could load this list with political diatribes about
> > various and sundry politicos and their cronies. I don't. Please do
> > likewise.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:07 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
> >
> >> Well it was a specious argument anyway because it assumes that the
> phone
> >> company plays nice the way it is supposed to by law.
> >>
> >> By law the people that own the wire (ILEC = Incumbent Local Exchange
> >> Carrier) were supposed to open it up to resellers (CLEC = Competitive
> >> Local Exchange Carrier) in exchange for being allowed to sell long
> >> distance.  What the ILECs did instead is pretend they were "open" but
> >> then do everything they could to sabotage the CLECs (e.g. not doing the
> >> central office connections in a timely fashion) so that CLECs couldn't
> >> really make a go of anything other than business connections.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately the FCC which was supposed to insure this didn't happen
> >> got taken over by Dubya appointees and suddenly it didn't matter that
> >> the ILECs weren't complying.
> >>
> >> You're supposed to have a choice but you don't really for the most
> part.
> >> Witness the poster who has DSL from AT&T but for some reason can't get
> >> it from any of the resellers because of the way it is provisioned.
> >>
> >>
>
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