From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 22 1:26:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246AE14D58 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 01:26:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id JAA31968; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:25:53 GMT Message-ID: <36F60CA1.B0021CDA@tdx.co.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:25:53 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Slater Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support Blues References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Slater wrote: > > Hi, > After yet another relentless day providing phone support to one > clueless idiot after another, i was wondering if anyone had ever attemtped > the document cases of overworked and frustrated tech support staff blowing > their brains out after having to put up with "My Computer's broken.. It > says the pipeline burst" or It worked fine at XYZ ISP, what's wrong with > your service".. Some of the !@#$ we hear on a day to day basis is nothing > short of ridiculous.. Makes me wonder why some people buy a computer at > all. This isnt' really related to FreeBSD, but if it's any consilation - your not alone... We don't expect our users to be computer experts, but we do expect them not to fall for the 'plug and play' attitude rammed down their throats by the Industry & MS etc. Maybe we're expecting too much? Maybe the industry had better hurry up and delivery today what it promised yesterday :-) Maybe we should start an ISP mailing list? (i.e. seperate from FreeBSD :-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message