[RLUG] Microsoft sucks! (was: GBIS Starter DSL service)

Sebastian Smith ssmith at cse.unr.edu
Tue Aug 9 14:43:52 PDT 2005


Good call Mark ;)

I tell you what... I hate Exchange!  I've never used a poorer performing 
mail server.  Not only did it suck installed, but it sucks uninstalled -- 
especially when you have to gut it out of the server by hand like I still 
have to do.

- Sebastian

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Mark Ballew wrote:

> I hate to do this, but could we kill the broadband thread? I think last year 
> we flamed GBIS too, and the year before Redundant, and the year before 
> Pyramid, and the year before Intercomm, and the year before Connectix, and 
> the year before the hard disk cafe bbs.
>
> I suggest we flame Microsoft. So who here has to deal with Exchange?
>
> Mark
>
> On Aug 9, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Arashi wrote:
>
>> Ya can't beat Great Basin...
>> 
>> I signed up with them for a week back in the 90's and
>> quit because I was unable to connect at the promised
>> speed.  5 years later I received a letter from a
>> collection agency saying I owed them $20 that suddenly
>> became $40 something.  I didn't owe them anything and
>> refused to pay.  It then showed up on my credit report
>> so I called Great Basin. They didn't care.
>> 
>> I just need to take the time to go to small claims
>> court.  It's not worth the time or money, but it will
>> be worth the satisfaction...
>> 
>> BTW, I've been using SBC DSL for @ 5 years now without
>> any major problems.
>> 
>> 
>> --- Steve Fisher <sperlock at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Anyone here using Great Basin's Starter DSL service?
>>>  While I am
>>> relatively happy with SBC, I wouldn't mind the
>>> cheaper price and
>>> supporting a local company.  Just basic Internet
>>> usage with my desktop
>>> and once in a while my laptop, no servers or
>>> anything like that.  I just
>>> don't want to have issues trying to switch.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Sodd's Second Law:
>>>     Sooner or later, the worst possible set of
>>> circumstances is
>>>     bound to occur.
>>> 
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