Re: {SPAM?} Re: [SLUG] Sarasota DSL Providers

From: Pete Theisen (petet@acun.com)
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 01:17:13 EDT


Hi Mark and all!

I agree about Verizon, they are not to be trusted. Go with Access
Unlimited. I have been very satisfied with their service. Tell them you are
the Linux club President since George in particular is very supportive of
Linux.

At 08:51 PM 5/12/2004, you wrote:
>Joe Brandt wrote:
>
>>mark@bish.net wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Anybody have recommendations?
>>>
>>I use Verizon with no problems, They even let me host services as long
>>as my bandwidth is not what they deem excessive. They will not define
>>excessive though.
>
>That's a common problem with DSL providers that are also telephone
>companies: they tend to conceal standards of "reasonability" so that they
>can change them at any time without having to inform anyone.
>Likewise, Verizon has a bad reputation for bilking their customers,
>particularly as applies to package deals. If they offer you a deal
>involving DSL and unlimited long distance for one low-low rate, expect it
>to be a lot of smoke and mirrors. I know of at least four people (my
>father being one of them) that bought that line, read all the fine print,
>found that they really did seem to be offering the deal that they appeared
>to be offering . . . and ended up getting charged something like two
>hundred dollars in domestic long distance.
>
>I'm not saying nobody should use Verizon, but you should definitely be
>suspicious of anything that sounds too good to be true.
>
>--
>Chad Perrin
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
>Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
>posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
>official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.

Regards,

Pete

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 18:10:07 EDT