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Thought this might interest some of you guys, especially those at CRL and one other fella...... >;) BTW, I am the messenger, not the author..... -Steve. From: [email protected] >Subject: beware of CRL! you are LOOSING EMAIL and LOOSING CONTACTS >Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 00:21:26 -0600 >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Newsgroups: >ba.internet,alt.internet,alt.internet.access,alt.internet.commerce,alt. internet. >providers.america,alt.internet.services >Organization: Deja News Posting Service >Path: >news.iswest.net!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbrid ge.uorego >n.edu!nntp2.dejanews.com!grunt.dejanews.com!not-for-mail >X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 13 06:07:13 1998 GMT >X-Authenticated-Sender: [email protected] >X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95) >X-Originating-IP-Addr: 207.171.196.242 (sf-pm10-18-242.dialup.slip.net) >Lines: 43 >Xref: news.iswest.net ba.internet:34461 alt.internet:15772 >alt.internet.commerce:62928 alt.internet.providers.america:1533 >alt.internet.services:135128 > >Why C R L SUCKS AND YOU TOO SHOULD DROP THEM: 1) Your email address at >CRL only works with the portion of the world THEY like. Did you know they >block off many servers and all of their users from being able to reach >you because someone onced might have used that machine to send commercial >email? And they will NOT tell you this nor admit to it until you've >mysteriously lost touch with your contacts and loved ones. A few >examples: kiss your love ones goodbye from hotmail.com, juno.com, >hinet.net (this would be the entire nation for Taiwan). They say they are >doing this to fight spam, ironically a lot of spam is actually generated >from CRL. More like kissing up to this self appointed Internet Lord Paul >Vixie who runs the Real Time Blackhole List (the list which does this >emai censoring and blocking, with out any concern for end users' >connectivity). This guy prettymuch figured he has the power to decide who >you can and can not get email from. And they are banking on you NOT >FINDING OUT about it. And guess what, my spam has not decreased, but >actually increased since they used this none-selective block.. they did >managed to cut me off from my important contacts, but not spam. 2) Try >it. Their Dial up in San Francisco and Southbay hang up on you or do not >answer 70% of the time during prime time and 50% during off peak (this >was my experience, not scientific.. but still). They refuse to upgrade >beyond 28.8k (spending all the money they made on the fat corporate job >hogs). 3) Tech support? What tech support? When I confronted them about >the missing email they actually yelled at me (after 10-15 emails to get a >response, phone calls? forget it..) and told me it was my contacts' fault >that they subscribed to the "bad, bad spamming company for ISP). Imagin >if your phone company told you you can not get calls from your mom >because she lives in an area with a phone company they did not like.. >Since when did CRL figure out dictatorship was in again? 4)They will NOT >cancel your service and will keep on charging your credit card... Many >other users complained about this, it was even mentioned in PC Magazine's >ISP review. There are many more reasons why they bite, but I really do >not want to waste my energy over those bastards anymore. I am actually >the last of my associates to drop their service because I do not want to >change my email and web address for the sake of business (I've already >spent a lot on printing them on all kinds of materials). Face it, CRL has >gotten fat off of it's customers, now it is screwing them. The email >block was what really did it. How would you like a phone service >(especially for business) that can only take calls from a PART of the >country and the world? Email me if you want to start a class action >lawsuit against them. > >-------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
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