Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Sep 2 15:03:26 CDT 2006
That is a terrible story. :-( Such a rude and arrogant bunch... The free market systems seems to have failing apart in your area. Here is the wilds of Canada there is little chance for free-enterprise competition so the first supplier past the gate wins it all. The only check-and-balance for a society of monopolies is strict government regulations and the one regulation that worked was the one that forced the high-speed internet provider to extend their services to virtually every town and village charging only a standard rate. (There are now 2 providers now but that is another story.) Get political Susan; you could start by posting a similar article to your local newspaper, congressman etc. Believe me it does work and with your writing skills... Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins Sent: Saturday, September 02, 2006 7:58 AM To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] sp_configure question It's a dreadful story. We live in rural Kentucky. Cable and dsl stopped up the street for a long time. Finally, dsl was available via bellsouth and we signed on. BIG MISTAKE!!!!!!!! They cancelled my dialup, which I didn't ask them to do, and then when I used my dialup instead of dsl, they charged me an extra $20 a month for the privlege. I called and complained and the guy kept telling me that I upgraded, so that meant I didn't have dialup and I said, no, I never cancelled my $4 a month dialup so they could ding me $20 instead -- finally, he said, (and I'm not kidding) - "Lady, you ordered it, you're paying for it." Well, no, I didn't order their emergency dialup and I didn't want it -- I already had my own dialup. But, they simply usurped it and he actually told me I couldn't have my own dialup with dsl -- which is total nonsense. I was lucky to find a new phone and dsl carrier within a few weeks and I cancelled all of my bellsouth services -- which were running about $170 a month -- and I'm paying about half that now. The only problem is, now dsl won't work. The new service has checked the lines outside and they say it must be inside or the modem, which is one that they sent me and it's brand new. If I were of a conspiracy mind, I'd say bellsouth is doing something to interfer with the lines, because the coincidence is just so ... coincidential. :) And of course, because I HATE BELLSOUTH so much. Their customer service is really a form of torture. Trying to fix it was just consuming too much of my time. I already have filters on all the phone lines -- and the modem's the one the new service sent me, so the only option left is to let them come inside and test my lines inside, which cost almost $200 -- I don't want dsl that bad. Susan H. what the heck are you still doing on dialup? what dreadful place are you at? :) On 8/21/06, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at setel.com> wrote: > Thank you - -- that'll be useful. > > Susan H. > > You can always access it online at MSDN.. ;=) > > http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214.aspx > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- -Francisco http://sqlthis.blogspot.com | Tsql and More... _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/428 - Release Date: 8/25/2006 _______________________________________________ dba-SQLServer mailing list dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver http://www.databaseadvisors.com