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[Gene Heskett]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 05/07/06, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> They also filter your email "to stop virus etc" and there is no way to
>> opt out except to have everyone use a special address (change the
>> verizon in my address to verizononline) to send me an email that
>> supposedly bypasses this filtering.  When I tried to sign up for
>> wengophone, I wanted to do that, but there was no way they (wengophone)
>> would accept an email address that didn't match the one in the headers
>> of the message they received.  So I'm screwed & didn't even get kissed.
>>
>> I've also tried to sign up for the ekiga service, and again, I never
>> received the message with the key in it.  Using 3 different sirnames.
>> The web page reports you will get a confirming message shortly.  Its
>> been about 75 days, what do they call shortly?  All I can conclude, from
>> the clues available, is that they have compiled a list of voip providers
>> and filter all email traffic from them to /dev/null.
>>
>> Fair?, hell no.
>>
>> Violates the Common Carrier conditions?, hell yes.
>>
>> Will the FCC regulate it?  Congress pulled their teeth & emasculated
>> them years ago.  Now all they do is fine radio stations $325,000 for a
>> verbal wardrobe malfunction.  Thats more than most stations are worth
>> (without the license of course).
>>
>> Now, if someone knows of a dsl service equ I can get in Weston WV that
>> is 100% common carrier compliant, please advise me how to get it.
>>
>> I'd love to have cebridge come in, they are only 8 miles away and voip,
>> vpn, all that stuff "just works" when hooked up to them.  But they don't
>> have the cable franchise here, so our other choice is some AOL'd version
>> from TW who, last I knew, owned the cable system here.  Which is another
>> rant, this is the first cable system in the country with FTTH, but its
>> now old & mostly one way.  I gave up & got dish, but thats going out a
>> week ago.  Contract for a year is up, service is crap.  We can do
>> without it.
>>
>> Or get cable again, they never took the box off the house.
>>
> 
> There's legeslation on the table right now on the subject. Do you want
> to know why it didn't pass:
> http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499
> 
> What do you think of that bozo?
> 
I sincerely hope his constituents remember that bit of idiocy come next 
election day.

> Dotan Cohen
> http://technology-sleuth.com
> 


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Cheers, Gene