Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!telecom-request From: Richard.Lerner@lerner.avalon.cs.cmu.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Did MCI Give me $20? Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 23:15:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: ral+@cs.cmu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 206, Message 2 of 10 Barton.Bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) argues that he can cash the $20 check from MCI without giving them permission to change his Dial-1 service. Lets be reasonable here! MCI makes its intent clear. It wants to give you $20 "cash" to change to MCI, rather than giving rebates on some future bill. Why do you want to pervert this promotion on some legal technicality? Do you really think that wasting peoples' time fighting to have your Dial-1 restored "all NOT at [your] expense" is reasonable? It is arguments like these that make the US one of the most litigious countries. You would rather have MCI spend its money on promotion lawyers, and have your local phone company waste its resources on your "fun", than on improving the phone system. > I am also sure there WOULD be a switch, and then a fight about > getting switched back all NOT at my expense, but that will be the > fun part. Yuck! I happen to be a Sprint customer and do not approve of MCI's alleged slamming. Rick Lerner (ral+@cs.cmu.edu) Carnegie Mellon University