(a certain cable conglomerate)

[R. Paul Warriner]

I wish to stress again, I do not disagree with the things being said, and 
I would be happy to discuss the time I was following my wife to the 
hospital, while she was in an ambulance, and I had a conversation with a 
certain customer service rep, who contacted me on my cell, and who I tried to 
convince this was a bad time, but only to hangup on the rep to stop the conversation. 
Or, I can discuss the 9 weeks to have 2 email accounts established on my companys' 
existing contract list, as per our contract, or the countless other connection problems 
our employees have.

I do not blame the reps, or my salesperson, for they are pawns to the 
powers to be. To the contrary, I only hope they survive the 
position they have found themselves put into, by those powers.

Anyway, I am not under non-disclosure, and I have sufficient proof against 
slander charges, if someone wants to get foxy. 

The point I was trying to make is that companies come and go, but lawyers 
live forever.

Let the truth be told, Amen.

paulw at wzrd.com

> Well I guess that is all the conversation for now about a certain cable
> conglomerate.  Don't worry about the non-disclosure agreement: The other
> party will cease to exist in short  order.  Then we can have a big party
> and all the former employees can rant about how messed up the whole
> thing was.  And we will laugh.  We will laugh so hard. It will be a
> binge of laughter.
> 
> And the people at wizard communications will laugh too because their
> meaty dial up service will receive a sudden influx of customers.  And so
> will buffnet, and all the other high tech dial up companies.  
> 
> The only defense against slander is the truth.
> 
> A word of caution: this is going to get a whole lot funnier before it is
> all over. 
> 
> If anyone writes me tonight and it bounces back it is because Adelphia
> had discontinued operations and decided to dedicate their slim resources
> to pursue legal battles with current and former employees for violating
> non disclosure agreements by talking crap about their best practices,
> all of which has surely led to accountants becoming confused and led to
> the demise of its stock price.  
> 
> Oh yes, that is a long sentence which will hopefully lead to reduced
> crime, which will save money, which will ultimately save lives.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Tim Makai
> 
> On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 15:30, R. Paul Warriner wrote:
> > Not that I am being critical of anything said, since I do value the 
> > 1st amendment, but certain non-disclosure statements, signed by new 
> > employees of many corporations, may cause heartache later in life.
> > 
> > Just a word of caution.
> > 
> > paulw at wzrd.com
> > 
> > > Well, interesting thread.  I used to work for this certain cable 
> > > conglomerate, but quit due to the inproprieties (sp?) of the company.  I 
> > > was one of the senior tech support personnel, but the job got reduced to 
> > > doing stupid stuff all day rather than any real troubleshooting.  Also, 
> > > with the hiring freeze in the Unix dept, there was no future there for me.
> > > 
> > > I can say with certainty though that if the smtp servers are overwhelmed 
> > > the Unix personnel will actually go in and clear the queue so that the mail 
> > > will work again.  Why this is necessary is anyone's guess.  But I know for 
> > > a fact also that they do NOT like the customers to know this fact.  Another 
> > > senior tech got ROYALLY reamed for honestly informing a customer of this fact.
> > > You are actually supposed to feign stupidity and 'ask the customer to 
> > > resend the email'.
> > > This was completely unacceptable to me, and others, but I finally got fed 
> > > up with all the BS and decided that it was time to move on with my life and 
> > > career.
> > > 
> > > Since I no longer work for the company, they really can't say squat to me 
> > > anymore :-)
> > > Finally I can be honest about them and their 'incredible' service ;-0
> > > 
> > > As you can see, I do not use their mail servers either.. I have always 
> > > relied on my localnet dialup account, they know how to do mail :-)
> > > 
> > > Charles Rishel
> > > Chaz®
> > > 
> > > At 03:09 AM 6/6/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >         Stay away from the purple micro-dot errrr I mean Adelphia mail,
> > > >It's pretty bad.
> > > >         It's pretty bad when my desk rumbles because I'm 20 feet over
> > > >the freakin' head end and my mail is down.
> > > >         Dege, I can't verify your claim. In fact I'd go as far as highly
> > > >doubting it but I wouldn't go as far as wagering my highly coveted
> > > >employee stock purchase plan on it. Adelphia's server farms are
> > > >completely infested with spam and Klez. The Klez is clearing up but the
> > > >spam levels are higher than I've ever seen. It's really a global problem
> > > >but Adelphia's late to the game as far as installing anti-spam software
> > > >that works. They don't want to offend innocent domains. There's no
> > > >grease in the chain of command.
> > > >         Are any of my bosses in this group? I'll be waiting for the tap
> > > >on the shoulder tomorrow. Ahem, Mr. Falsone, why don't you come with me.
> > > >Ahhh!
> > > >         OK, stay away from the mail
> > > >
> > > >         -Anthony
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
> > > >Justin Bennett
> > > >Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 1:04 PM
> > > >To: nflug at nflug.org
> > > >Subject: Re: RE: (a certain cable conglomerate)
> > > >
> > > >Got my standby dialup ATT, for just such emergencies... :) I have
> > > >friends who use their mail, it sucks. Sometimes delays as long as a day
> > > >or so, they've had mail that doesn't get through, ect.. So I hear. I
> > > >don't use it....
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 11:53, Robert Dege wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > >     So when I have one of my periodic outages I know who to yell
> > > >at... just
> > > > > > kidding :)
> > > > >
> > > > > heh - how can you email out if you're suffering through a periodic
> > > >outage?
> > > > > :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Speaking of crack-delphia, I heard that in order to handle the
> > > > > overwhelming load of users trying to use the mail server, that they
> > > >are
> > > > > actually diabling user accounts (temporarily of course) until server
> > > >loads
> > > > > are reasonable.  Then they re-activate the accounts.
> > > > >
> > > > > This urban legend hold water?
> > > > >
> > > > > Dege
> > > > >
> > > > > So Many Things in Life Would Be Really Funny
> > > > > .... If They Weren't Happening To Me
> > > > >
> > > > >
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> > > >-------------------------------------------
> > > >Justin Bennett
> > > >Red Hat (Linux) Certified Engineer
> > > >Network Administrator
> > > >Dynabrade Inc.
> > > >8989 Sheridan Dr
> > > >Clarence, NY 14031
> > > >716-631-0100 ext 215
> > > >
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