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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: OT: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits
I met del at a mini "Computer Expo" at Wailea, Maui in '96. He was dealing Blackjack in his booth for prizes (I won an external 14.4 modem) and giving away "beta test" dialup accounts. I thought that 'shaka.com' was cool, so after 6 months of free beta, I signed up and have been with them since. --Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Weeks" <[email protected]> To: "Scott Francis" <[email protected]> Cc: "Rowland, Alan D" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 11:04 AM Subject: Re: OT: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits > > > > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Scott Francis wrote: > > : On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:00:44AM -0700, [email protected] said: > : > > : > (shooting self in foot...) > : > > : > Just eliminate tech support and proprietary software! "A list of our > : > settings is available at www.domain.com/settings. And don't call us with > : > tech problems. We don't do tech support." > : > > : > I know of at least one ISP out there already doing this. Not that they're > : > highly successful, but imagine not having to tell someone, "Yes, your > : > username and password are case sensitive and must be spelled exactly as > : > supplied. And it's .net, not .com" ever again. > : > : http://www.flex.com/ > : > : Unfortunately, it looks like they took down the hate mail page, which was > : hysterical. *sigh* They target clueful users only, and seem to be getting by > : just fine. http://www.flex.com/adsl/ has a bit more of the "intelligent users > : only" pitch. > > > > One of Hawaii's fun things... ;-) > > http://www.flex.com/net_status/fan_con.html > > scott > > > > > > "sorry sir but i find AOL easy to use, i didnt know that since AOL is a > helluva lot easier to use than freakin IE im considered computer > illteritate, just quit bashing AOL, not all of us are sado-masochists." > > > > *heh* no need to comment, but it surely is begging for it... :-) >
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