Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2009, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> Skype has a signup that vz doesn't block, or cannot block. I have >>> attempted to sign up for an account with ekiga on at least 4 occasions >>> now, also twinkle, and the confirming email which must be replied to >>> never arrives for any of those services, which prevents a vz sub (only >>> game in town) from getting to first base. Which is another reason skype >>> has a liplock on this. Me, I'd druther sue vz for not being a common >>> carrier, which they _claim_ to be. Yeah, sure they are.... >>> >> Are you saying that vz blocks you from using gmail or yahoo mail so that >> you can't even use those to sign up for an account with ekiga? >> > > Yes. No proof of course other than none of the emails confirming the > registration and which must be replied to have never been rx'd here. All > this took place before I was able to make use of two other accounts I now > use, one at gmail and one at the tv station. > So, you were able to sign up (register) with ekiga using gmail.... > Ekiga in particular makes it almost impossible to even attempt to re- > register, so I had to be pretty creative to get ekiga to accept a 2nd and 3rd > attempt. Twinkle I gave up on after the 2nd try. > Oh....So you're simply the victim of, in this case, ekiga's poor registration system and vz poor email system. > vz, in their attempts to control spam, has decided that these mailing lists > that have so much traffic have to be spam, and has refused to accept 2 or 3 > of them, forcing majordomo to unsub me, so I have had to switch to gmail for > some lists. > > Call tech support with smoke coming out of both ears, escalate the call 2 or > 3 times to get to someone who might have a quarter, and they'll of course > deny it. To do otherwise confirms they are controlling traffic, and that > they sleep with M$. Like I've said, I sure wish there was another game in > town for that last 30 miles to here, but in WV, it will never happen. > > The latest insult is that news services, like cnn or fauxnews or the bbc, are > all being throttled, so if I want to watch a story without a bunch of 20 > second pauses in a 3 minute package, I'll pause it for a minute or 5 & go > check email, so it is all downloaded when I unpause it. msnbc of course > doesn't suffer from that throttling cuz its M$. File fetching still has > mostly full speed as those speeds are usually reported by the app pulling the > file. And so far, torrents are pretty good if there are enough seeders. > > OK....so this is really "rant" about vz. And somehow vz is "in bed" with anything M$ cause it supposedly allows MSNBC through.... -- Anything cut to length will be too short. Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg
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