From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jul 23 14: 7: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE72237B403 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f6NL6WO11716; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:06:32 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010723141729.G75590@bsd.havk.org> References: <20010723141729.G75590@bsd.havk.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 23:03:55 +0200 To: Steve Price , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Verizon woes Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 2:17 PM -0500 7/23/01, Steve Price wrote: > Let's suppose they do make it stick though. What other options > are there besides addressing every message as being from @verizon.net? This issue has come up recently on the dc.sage mailing list. I'll tell you the same thing I told them -- get another provider, now. From what I understand, Covad is in bad shape right now, presumably because they don't have enough customers. If enough of bloody tightwads would stop their griping and actually do something about the problem (i.e., vote with their feet and switch providers), then maybe Verizon would wake up and smell the manure. I've had Speakeasy highly recommended to me, and I believe that they are a Covad reseller. Now, everyone else can stop bitching until they've lived in a country where, by law, there can be one and only one *DSL provider (the former PTT), and where the entity in question completely owns the regulators so that they can rape the customers in any damn way they can see fit. Try Belgium on for size, and see how you like it. -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message