Plug-discuss digest, Vol 1 #539 - 20 msgs

Ronald Ellis rellis42@home.com
Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:14:20 -0700


>

Jason:

> Rage on.  I completely agree.  QWEST (or US West) is regulated through the corporation commissions.  I have a relative that works as a
> lawyer for  the Corp comm and regales me daily with tales of how they have the commissioners in pocket.  As they do anyone who can
> affect their bottom line.  Bastards own the market and laugh in our faces daily.

Considered changing to COX, but had such crappy service there too that I bagged it.  Someday we will have a real choice in service.

    -Ron

>
> Has anyone else had their phoneline RAPED recently by Qwest?
>
> These cocksuckers recently took away my busy signal, and replaced it
> with a voice that demands I either hang up, or press a number to be
> charged 75 cents so that they will redial the busy number
> automatically.
>
> Does this strike anyone else as slightly insane? Most phones these
> days, like modems, come with an automatic redial option. Of course,
> after the cocksuckers at quest BREAK the existing phones by removing
> the busy signal WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION, they sort of have a monopoly on
> redial.
>
> Fuckers!
>
> I called them up to demand they change it back, and they say the need
> to speak to the person who is in charge of the phone bill. Funny
> thing, the cons sure as fuck didnt need to speak to anyone when they
> fucked the phoneline up to start with, did they?
>
> Ahhh... local decentralization cant come soon enough. I would like to
> put a bullet thru the head of the asshole who came up with the idea to
> replace the busy signal with advertizements for a useless service.
>
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