From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 22 8: 3:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from voltage.net (voltage.net [204.214.227.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA9015138 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sward@voltage.net) Received: from arky (arky.voltage.net [204.214.227.12]) by voltage.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 008B71680D for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:59:59 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: sward@mail.voltage.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 09:49:23 -0600 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Susie Ward Subject: Re: Support Blues In-Reply-To: <36F60CA1.B0021CDA@tdx.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <19990322160000.008B71680D@voltage.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:25 AM 3/22/99 +0000, Karl Pielorz wrote: >Michael Slater wrote: >> 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. Here is a website with some hilarious tech support calls. You'll need either Real Audio or the ability to play wavs to hear them. It's a very good stress reliever! http://helpdeskfunnies.cyberjuice.com/wavs.htm >Maybe we should start an ISP mailing list? (i.e. seperate from FreeBSD :-) There are already several ISP mailing lists. My favorite is inet-access, send 'subscribe' in the body to 'list-request@inet-access.net' to join. There is also a channel on Efnet named #inet-access that is lots of fun. We can always use more FreeBSD ISPs there (had to say something to make this freebsd related :) Susie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message