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From: pacolley@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Colley)
Subject: Re: service problem with uunet?  cancel your acct, see what happens!
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.142723.26718@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: uunet uucp internet dns pathalias usenix psi
Sender: daemon@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <3625@dagobah.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1991 14:27:23 GMT
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To pick one point of Mark's article:

In article <3625@dagobah.UUCP> mis@Seiden.com (Mark Seiden) writes:
>
>on mar 2 i informed uunet by email to cancel service, and they jerked
>me around for several days wanting it in writing,

Hmmm, maybe you should look at the contract you signed when you
started service with them?

The contract I have clearly states that service can only be cancelled
by a request in ***WRITING***

Seems to me that you are being obstinate in not providing what you've
contracted to do...


(I presume this clause is because of the ease of forging Email, to
prevent other obnoxious people from cancelling your account).

- Paul Colley
  pacolley@violet.waterloo.edu or .ca
  "Quantum Mechanics:  The dreams stuff is made of"    - Ken Burnside