From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 14:28:32 +0800
To: tallpaul@pipeline.com (tallpaul)
Subject: Re: Zensoren ueber Alles
In-Reply-To: <199512300548.AAA02407@pipe8.nyc.pipeline.com>
Message-ID: <199512300604.AAA05518@dal1820.computek.net>
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This "Tall Paul" fellow said:

> Based on other news reports, I conclude that CompuServe lied in both areas.

So?  Companies lie all the time - the bigger the company, the bigger the 
lie, in my experience.  Companies are like governments - they will get 
away with what they can until caught.  Even then, they rarely stop - it 
just goes undercover.

> It did none of these things. It cut off all customers to an enormous number
> of groups. It inferrentially violated property rights (i.e. contracts) to
> customers promised internet access and now provided only a crippled version
> thereof. And it lied about the whole thing. 

Again, so?  All that it will do is to drive people away from Compu$erve 
into the arms of other service providers.  Maybe some of them will even 
figure out what a *real* ISP is...
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"Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families,
through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a
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