Re: [Junk released by Allow List] Re: more on MS networking

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
I'd like to know, too. For the future. Verizon has a knack for
locking you in, and keeping you
Indeed. Not to mention the scam of inside wire maintenance: costs
a couple of bucks extra a month, but it you don't have it and
there's a problem, they will INSIST that it's in your equipment,
not their network that's at fault. I finally had to get it to get
any service at all. Grr.
they've deliberately throttled it waaay back to just an
incremental improvement over current expectations (this way they
can ramp up real slowly and present each incremental
unthrottling as a huge technological achievement -- keep that
income stream alive).
But of course! What else would you expect from a virtual monopoly?
so you have to use their SMTP server (or their DNS -- I've read
that they block ALL outgoing ports unless you have a business
account @ $100+/month),
Well, here all FIOS is $99 a month. And while I don't have the
tech knowledge to do all those things Robert is talking about, I
know d---d well that I should like to be able to do them if I
did. And not have some Big Brother telling me nay.
-- are they, in short, control addicts? 
And BTW, they cut your old copper wires so that there's no going
back to other providers. In short, you have to read the fine
print, and then read some more. But guess what: it may not
matter.  "we may in our discretion
terminate your DSL Service and no longer make DSL service
available to your location. In cases of such termination, we
will offer to you Verizon Fios Internet Service and we will
disclose to you applicable rates and additional terms, if any,
and such rates and terms may differ from the DSL Services
provided under this Agreement."
I've never thought of myself as a leftist or even a liberal, but
that strikes me as flat-out outrageous. I'm sure there are lots
of people who don't use the Net enough (I know one: all she does
is exchange e-mails with her relatives and old friends) to
economically justify even DSL, much less FIOS. And it gets rammed
down their throats, will they, nill they? Corporate dictators are
still dictators. And highway robbery is highway robbery.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscameg@xxxxxxxx