Stay away from this crooked and incompetent semi-ISP.

I had a basic dialup account with them for a long time. I paid in
advance every month with an anonymous, pre-paid debit card,

(I smelled a rat and refused to give them a real credit card
number or a routing number to a bank account. Turned out this was
a very wise decision.)

I didn't order any other services from them.

Yet every month they sent me a notice that demanded payment on
my supposedly overdue account, and often I would get bills
from them for services I didn't order, telling me they were
going to append the charges to my telephone bill!

I had my attorney send them a letter informing them that if
they appenedd any charges to my phone bill that she would
grind them up into little pieces and feed them to the dogs.

She would, too! :-) Attorneys don't drive Quattroportes unless
they are very good at what they do.

So that didn't happen, but not everyone has a shark on
a leash...

As near as I can tell that whole mickey mouse outfit has two or
three employees at any given time, the asshole who owns it and
whichever new, underpaid workers haven't quit yet.

They offer a bunch of silly, over-priced "special services" and are
really just an Internet verion of those 'quicky-lube' chains that
are always trying to con and pressure their customers into buying
some unnecesary service that doesn't do anything.

Because they can't make the money they want with their advertised
services and prices.

This semi-ISP doesn't even run its own mailservers. And they
start out with fairly quick dialup speeds and then pinch them
back gradually over time and send you offers for "Enhanced Dialup".

Etc. Avoid them like the plague and spread the word.

Tom

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Tom N wrote:
> Stay away from this crooked and incompetent semi-ISP.

100 people buy cars from 1 dealer. 3 come back and say the cars they
bought are not performing as they should. do you say

A. those 3 cars have a problem.

or

B. the car yard has a problem and nobody should buy any cars from it
because they will get a bad car.

> I had a basic dialup account with them for a long time. I paid in
> advance every month with an anonymous, pre-paid debit card,

Hiding something? Anonymous payments, anonymous newsserver. lol

> This semi-ISP doesn't even run its own mailservers. And they
> start out with fairly quick dialup speeds and then pinch them
> back gradually over time and send you offers for "Enhanced Dialup".

Any evidence to substantiate this accusation or are you talking out of
your ass as usual tom?

> Etc. Avoid them like the plague and spread the word.

I'd suggest everyone avoid listening to your nonsense.

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:37:12 +1100, Paul Man wrote:

> I'd suggest everyone avoid listening to your nonsense.

Good suggestion. That fool and his moronic threads have long ago been
killfiled.

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Paul Man wrote:


> Hiding something? Anonymous payments, anonymous newsserver. lol

theres a law against that in many countries


>> This semi-ISP doesn't even run its own mailservers. And they
>> start out with fairly quick dialup speeds and then pinch them
>> back gradually over time and send you offers for "Enhanced Dialup".
>
> Any evidence to substantiate this accusation or are you talking out of your
> ass as usual tom?


# host -t mx simple.net
simple.net mail is handled by 50 athena.simple.net.
simple.net mail is handled by 10 mx1.simple.net.
# host mx1.simple.net
mx1.simple.net has address 216.185.179.180
# whois 216.185.179.180
Eschelon Telecom, Inc. ESCHELON-216-185-160-0 (NET-216-185-160-0-1)
216.185.160.0 - 216.185.191.255
Simple.Net NET-216-185-179-160-27 (NET-216-185-179-160-1)
216.185.179.160 - 216.185.179.191

# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2008-01-27 19:10
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.



> I'd suggest everyone avoid listening to your nonsense.

We all did, a looooonnnngggg time ago


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Res

mysql> update auth set Framed-IP-Address='127.0.0.127' where user= 'troll';

Tom N wrote:

> Stay away from this crooked and incompetent semi-ISP.

<snip>

> I had my attorney send them a letter informing them that if
> they appenedd any charges to my phone bill that she would
> grind them up into little pieces and feed them to the dogs.
>
> She would, too! :-) Attorneys don't drive Quattroportes unless
> they are very good at what they do.

<snip>

Has your Maserati-driving lawyer ever heard of libel? Does she laugh at
your computer? Has she offered to buy you a mouse?

--
Old Man

"Swagger isn't courage." Lee Iacocca

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:55:15 +0100, Tom N wrote:

> I had my attorney send them a letter informing them that if

You don't have an attorney, Alan. You have a social worker.

> She would, too! :-) Attorneys don't drive Quattroportes unless

I saw what your "attorney" was driving, Alan. Didn't look like a Maserati
to me:

http://brandybuck.890m.com/pics/rust800.jpg


--
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On 2008-01-28, Tom N <tom@somewhere.invalid> wrote:


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That troll feeb again. Thinks that posting childish shit I don't even read is
going to harm me.

What a fucking LOSER!

Post goes unread and name is added to my killfile.

You are out of your league, numbnuts.

And too stupid to realize that even if I read your shit it wouldn't
make any difference.

I'm here, little bitch troll. I post what I want and I don't read your shit.

And you can't do anything about it.

It's looking like it will take years for this simple fact to register in your
feeble mind, but that hardly matters to me.

Tom

On 2008-01-28, Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:37:12 +1100, Paul Man wrote:
>
>> I'd suggest everyone avoid listening to your nonsense.
>
> Good suggestion. That fool and his moronic threads have long ago been
> killfiled.

Another Windows-clone interface (KDE) addict who doesn't have the balls
to engage me in an honest debate, and can't bully me into silence, and so
is reduced to sniping at me like a bitchy little girl who can't get her
own way.

Here's a clue for you, Dave: This sort of cowardly, backstabbing attack isn't
going to work for you any more than it works for the trolls.

Trust me here.

Tom

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at gee mail dot com

Tom N <tom@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
>
> I didn't order any other services from them.
>
> Yet every month they sent me a notice that demanded payment on
> my supposedly overdue account, and often I would get bills

Did you have a contract with them (even if it was month to month)?
Just because you pay ahead on a month to month basis, you can't always
cancel by simply not paying anymore (like you might do, with, say
a magazine subscription). If you have an actual month to month contract
with them, you may have to give notice (often written notice given in
advance). Until the service is actually canceled, they can continue to
bill you and even legally send bill collectors after your debt.

If you followed the cancellation policy, and this is happening, then
report them to the better business bureau.

> from them for services I didn't order, telling me they were
> going to append the charges to my telephone bill!

There would be no excuse for them to do that, of course.

- Kurt

Tom N wrote:
> On 2008-01-28, Tom N <tom@somewhere.invalid> wrote:
>
> Results 1 - 1 of 1 from Nov 1, 2007 to Jan 28, 2008 for author:Paul
author:Man
>
> That troll feeb again. Thinks that posting childish shit I don't
even read is
> going to harm me.
>
> What a fucking LOSER!
>
> Post goes unread and name is added to my killfile.

Yet you have quoted what I said in one of your posts. And if you have
never read the post, how did you deduce I was trolling? LOL.

Pack your bags and leave Alan, you're not fooling anyone :-) We all know
you cant help but read all the posts.

Alex.