[NCLUG] cable modems tomorrow at 4pm

[Matt Pujol]

It's like buying one of those $25 1.6MHz Pentium computers with the 36"
monitor....oh...right...the only catch is you just signed up for a lifetime
of MSN/AOL/Whatever.

How come they never sign you up for 5 years of Linux?

Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
Sean Reifschneider
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 2:10 AM
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: Re: [NCLUG] cable modems tomorrow at 4pm


On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:42:06PM -0700, Craig Chafin wrote:
>I received a letter telling me that I had to switch to MSN before the end
of
>the year because QWest.net was going away.  I called QWest and told them
that
>I use Linux, and I don't want MSN.  The rep told me to basically ignore the
>letter and that the QWest.net stuff will still work in 2002.

I've heard that once you are converted to MSN, the only way to switch to
another provider is to have your line canceled and then order a new line.
This was from one of the larger DSL providers in a note urging area ISPs
to get customers to switch away from MSN before the conversion is done.

Apparently this has something to do with QWest's legal agreement with MSN
on the transfer of the users...

Sean
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