[ale] Bycotting B$ (was Re: If you're on Bellsouth DSL, I recommend changing providers.)

[aaron]

I've been boycotting all possible B$ services for some time now, based on 
their 3 year run of complete incompetence and indifference in repairing their 
freaked up lines so I could get reliable DSL service at my home. The last 
straw was finding out my neighbor's DSL worked flawlessly... because the B$ 
monopoly was their DSL service provider, meaning that they are hooked to 
remote terminal gear  that  B$ doesn't allow competing providers to access.  

Of course, boycotting all of BellSouth's data services is also well founded if 
for no other reason than the browser exclusionary policies of their 
needlessly crippled, incompetent web site.

Try accessing http://www.bellsouth.net with anything other Interknot Exploiter 
or NetScrape and you'll see what I mean.

peace
aaron

On Wednesday 18 August 2004 19:06, Mike Murphy wrote:
> Just tried it again to make sure I wasn't crazy, and 587 is blocked as well.
> 
> 
> michael d. ivey wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:40:00AM -0400, Matthew Brown wrote:
> > 
> >>No, no.  Not a good thing at all.  It doesn't matter if I have a 
> >>sendmail server at home or not.  Blocking Port 25 prevents me from 
> >>sending email from my MUA through my SMTP server located out there 
> >>elsewhere on the Net.
> > 
> > 
> > No, it doesn't.  For that, you should be using secured submission on
> > 587, which isn't being blocked, AFAIK.
> > 
> 
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