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At 11:58 -0400 7/21/97, Eric Germann wrote: >Quote from an Ameritech rep after being verbally abused in a meeting for >them dropping a clients T-1 FOUR times cause nobody would write it down in >the book: > >"We may suck, but we suck less!" > >At 10:04 PM 7/19/97 -0500, you wrote: >>> From someone-I-can't-name-cuzza-their-job: >>> "MFS is the spawn of satan, it's all a conspiracy to send us back to the >>> dark ages of hand-written communication." >> >>How about the words that summ up MFS's (WorldCom's) entry into the local >>phone market: >> >>My Fone Sucks... >> >>Also works with Amerisuck - Your Link to Pain and Suffering! >> >>After working with these kinds of telco problems all week you just have to >>make up nice titles for them ;-) It's not just the transmission side. In 1981 or so, at the first GTE corporate network symposium, shortly after it bought Telenet, I gave a presentation on Telenet's network management architecture. My obligatory opening joke suggested that electronic mail could be regarded as a technology that would allow the Postal Service to lose the mail at the speed of light. A hand in the audience arose...turning out to be the President/COO of GTE. He looked at me and asked "what about your own company's offering, Telemail?" I took a deep breath. "Oh. We lose it slower." Howard
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