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From: merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <1991May20.062932.13623@iguana.uucp>
Organization: Ed (the iguana) Memorial Society
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Date: Mon, 20 May 91 06:29:32 GMT

In article <+.EB_VA@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1991May18.203937.9443@iguana.uucp> merce@iguana.uucp (Jim Mercer) writes:
>> >Fine. They gonna pay me the overtime for all the stuff that our developers
>> >want or need, that I have to set up and poll myself because of the problems
>> >establishing a reliable UUCP connection?
>
>> can you say "a cost of doing business" ?
>
>Can you say "we're already paying for the mail service, why should we pay
>twice?"?

if MBAS's were only a plague on hubs that sell their services, i wouldn't
have a problem, but they do tend to clog those of us generous enough to
provide those services for free.

if you are paying for mail service, bitch to your service provider.

if they aren't good enough, change providers.

if no provider can do a good enough job, start your own.

>Can you say "We're quite willing to pay for access to a reliable
>service for things like this... in fact we're already doing so."?

if you have reliable service, what's your beef?

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