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Author: Lee Einer
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Subject: Cox's *&%$* Support Site

der.hans wrote:

>Am 22. Dec, 2003 schwätzte Bryce C so:
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>>It seems that Cox doesn't support anyone but their Windows customers
>>running Internet Explorer. http://support.cox.net. Something has got to
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>It's been borken for years.
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>Are you really expecting cox to get this right? It's a lost cause.
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>You used to be able to hit 'esc' and stop loading the page before they
>obliterated it, but I see they've moved to server-side for censoring.
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>Call the BBB, but I doubt it'll help. If you can make a case for their site
>being borken due to not supporting equal access for those with handicaps you
>might get somewhere. Otherwise I expect them to keep ignoring complaints.
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>Keep pushing for standards elsewhere and they might have to eventually catch
>up with the rest of the Net.
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>ciao,
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>der.hans
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>

This is a relatively recent development. Cox's stated policy has always
been that they only support MS and IE, but I have at least been able to
check for outages, etc up until now.

So I flamed 'em. It was futile, but cathartic.

Are other cable or DSL vendors more friendly to open source?

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Lee Einer
Dos Manos Jewelry
http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com