From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 20:15:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72A0737B40D for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:15:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.fbfguns.com (adsl-64-123-156-89.dsl.okcyok.swbell.net [64.123.156.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B4743FDD for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:15:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@fbfguns.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.6249.0 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:15:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3BD4A5842C8AE2428158AB1EE6DCC37713FE1E@mail.fbfguns.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP Thread-Index: AcM1QjsZkXuVPfoPTae4ZP493AuDEgABVZpw From: "Jason Burgess" To: Subject: RE: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 03:15:16 -0000 Bill, Some companies are like that (I've worked for one before.) Their motto, "Never admit fault." But some people will still get you taken care of, even if they can't admit they did it. Jason Burgess -----Original Message----- From: Bill Moran [mailto:wmoran@potentialtech.com]=20 Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:34 PM To: Brad Knowles Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice on how to straighten out a crappy ISP Brad Knowles wrote: > At 9:50 PM -0400 2003/06/17, Bill Moran wrote: >=20 >> Does anyone have any suggestion on how I can get them to fix their >> worthless shit? I've tried being nice. I've tried being an asshole. >> I have nothing to threaten with, as there are no other high-speed >> providers in this area. >=20 > Don't bother. Find someone else that has a secure SMTP server (with=20 > a static IP address) that they will let you use and which allows=20 > SMTPAUTH and/or TLSSMTP, and then use them to relay all your mail. =20 > Unfortunately, this may cost more money than buying a static IP address=20 > for yourself. Well Brad (and anyone else who took interest in this thread) ... it's suddenly fixed. I was looking into it to get the details of what was wrong and now they've suddenly fixed it. I would be very happy except for the weeks that I spend arguing with them that they refused to admit anything was wrong ... but maybe my messages finally got through to someone who realized that I had a valid complaint. --=20 Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"