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TSC Member Waylander
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AOLHELL
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Scotland
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TSC Member Since:
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2003-12-12
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Bio: Ex-RAF Reg, been doing Tech Support for about 6 years or so for quite a few ISPs over the years...
Prestel Online
Scotland Online
Beeb.net
Cinergy (now closed, and what ever the names of what it split into in the channel isles)
WHSmith (thank fuck that moved)
In2Home (and wasn't that a mistake for Thus hehehehehe)
wee bit of Demon
and some other odds and sods (websites and shit)
mostly all at the same time...
got dumped cos management were assholes...
starting working for AOLHell...and found Lusers are just as bad on every ISP...so if you use the old it could be worse could be supporting AOL to make yourself feel better...your just lying to yourself...
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oops sorry Waylander forgot about yall. you get calls from the us or just uk? -GefahrMaus
know how you feel mate, I am in Dallas Texas and you should hear some of the dimwits i have to deal with -ScoTechLass
We get just the uk thankfully and have a hard enough time dealing with that. -Oneballbobby
Hi Rock, hows it going up in Haggis Land? -lineswine
Jings, Crivvens & help ma Boab! You means there are more than 2 states of weather there? I thought the re was just "raining" & "gonna" as in "it's gonna rain". -lineswine
Waylander, please check out my whiteboard. *I* didn't call anyone scum! -Tekkie
If you get any good analogies that work yah oughta post them. -satanstech
Hey if you work for AOHell and your in Scotland... shouldn't it be SOL???? -duckhead
goto http://www.accu.org/cgi-bin/access/access - click options - check all in the 1st section BUT 'make url longer'. check both in the cookies section and scroll down to type. -omegawolf
Yeah, I know I'm not an AOL techie. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I have nothing against *real* techs who just happen to work for AOL. Everyone needs a job. I despise AOL as a corporate entity because of the damage their software causes to Windows systems, and because they cater to the lowest common intellectual denominator in customers. But I won't hold that against AOL techs who truly know what they're doing, and so far, you seem to qualify. :~} Cheers, -RiffRaff
Oooo, Riff already posted what I was basically gonna say. We do seem to pick on certain entities (when we perceive them to be causing us grief) and I'm glad you haven't taken a tacLART to us over it. BTW, love the comment where you actually used the work "Aye!" I love a Scots accent! -Tekkie
I doubt that your install of Win95 was 7+ years old though... -objekt404
Humorously violent?! ;) -Tekkie
hey did you know david gemmell has a good book out with the title Waylander?? -samurai
RE: you comment on "Farking AOHell" -- I wouldn't have a problem with AOL's attempts to filter spam if they had a method to get off their list. They get as few as 5 complaints for AOL users that someone is sending spam and they block their IP/Domain. I know some people who run legitimate mailing lists that the AOL users actively asked to be a part of that are blocked. If 5 or more people are too lazy to unsubscribe to the mailing list and just mark it as spam, they entire sending IP or domain is blocked. Keep in mind that hundreds of prople on AOL may still want that newsletter. In fact, they may still be paying for it. AOL also blocks IP addresses from DSL customers who run a legitimate mail server. I do, I can't send to AOL. Neither my IP or my domain has EVER sent a single SPAM message. Why should I be blocked from sending to my friends? Sure, I want spam to stop as much as the next guy, but you have to be a little intelligent about it too. If I was able to call AOL and get my IP removed from the "Spammer's" list, I'd be fine with it, but I can't. Very soon, only whitelisted mail domains like Earhlink, Microsoft, and NetZero are going to be able to send to AOL users. When the world's biggest ISP starts exclusively working with only other big ISP's, then they squeeze out the little guys. -scooby111
The only modifier I might make on my previous comment is that I'd have to limit it to AOL support agents in North America. Since I have had no experiance with UK agents, I couldn't comment on any of them. -Teran
Re: your reply to Gerund's story: I'd have done the same in both your examples. Your are one of my heroes now! -Tekkie
re 'Different can be dangerous': I heard once that the definition of a Politician is "One who convinces people that different *IS* dangerous." Subtle point or slippery slope? I dunno, just my $0.02 -CTYankee
Jings, crivvens & help ma Boab...how you doing? -lineswine
-pollo
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