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- From: snolan@postmaster@hq.af.mil (Scott D Nolan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Cable Companies (was Babylon 5)
- Message-ID: <15472@hq.hq.af.mil>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:20:56 GMT
- References: <jwalkup.2yxx@terapin.com> <1992Dec28.122107.25751@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec28.182138.427@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <78856@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- In article <78856@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt6758b@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Maverick Kopack) writes:
- |> Yours too, eh? You know, it's really driving me nuts not being able to get it.
- |> I've know that it was comming out for about 3 years now. Both my cable company
- |> at home, and the one at school say that they "can't get it." When I ask them
- |> what that means, they say that they don't know, it's just what they're
- |> technician told them, and he's NEVER around! I want my SF channel!
-
- So when you call again to ask if they are going to carry the SF channel
- (or the PTEN channel, or provide cable ready tv service, etc) when
- they respond with the usaul cable comapny attitude of "No, because you
- will throw your money at us anyway attitude." Tell them that that is
- fine, but you will be dropping your subscription to cable. Then after
- you are no longer paying their extortionist rates... call them once a
- week and very politely, without identifying yourself, ask if they
- carry the ____(fill in what you want) channel. If they do,
- resubscribe, if they don't: thank them and hangup without identifying
- yourself.
-
- I personnaly can't wait until we do not need to depend on this
- needless monopoly system for receiving video signals. It sucks!
- The only monopoly that I can remember having actually worked, was
- AT&T's monopoly on the phone system... US cable companies are the
- worst at providing services and reasonable rates. But they do respond
- to customer demand, just only when they perceive it is GREAT enough.
- Help them perceive it, call them politely every week! :-)
-
- --
- Scott Nolan
- snolan@marge.hq.af.mil
-
- aka: Duncan Tiercel MacLeod
- Barony of Storvik, Atlantia
-
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-
- Tyson's Corner: A Monument to Capitolism.
-
- - no K-Mart shoppers allowed
-
- Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
-
- - Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
- Even if you are on the right path,
- If you just sit there you will get run over.
-
- - will rodgers
-
- We are lucky we don't have as much government as we pay for!
-
- - will rodgers
-
- Tyson's Corners Mall: Proof positive that capitalism works,
- despite government!
-
- - Scott Nolan
-