-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- This "Tall Paul" fellow said:
Based on other news reports, I conclude that CompuServe lied in both areas.
So? Companies lie all the time - the bigger the company, the bigger the lie, in my experience. Companies are like governments - they will get away with what they can until caught. Even then, they rarely stop - it just goes undercover.
It did none of these things. It cut off all customers to an enormous number of groups. It inferrentially violated property rights (i.e. contracts) to customers promised internet access and now provided only a crippled version thereof. And it lied about the whole thing.
Again, so? All that it will do is to drive people away from Compu$erve into the arms of other service providers. Maybe some of them will even figure out what a *real* ISP is... - -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMOTWTyS9AwzY9LDxAQH+OwQApSgooUc/ZgQgQm5xn1v4YxmI5jcVoJfR b5pBCnJvcvTBld5C/6tTuOyqpnEvJD/oBlT+buhQDinvLYD97Z3oh65weEAZNrJ0 x2iTz1NzilPB5EDawIPs4lTELFaJLLdPVKZvgPaqhoUum3Sm3uHvgL1HcvnR+vt0 5hZW/NGlF4M= =p6vI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----