I've decided to cancel my CrampuNerve account and send the weasels a msg to telling them why. I encourage everyone here to do the same with your CI$ account (if you still have one). These [insert colorful expletive here]s only understand one thing: cold ca$h. Thus, the only effective way to send them an indication of one's displeasure at their poor precedent-setting is to vote with one's wallet. Any who are still unfortunate enough to rely on CI$ for Internet/Usenet access are getting reamed price-wise anyway, not to mention suffering poor reliability and now access, so maybe a few of them could also take this opportunity to migrate to an ISP with some real "backbone." CI$ is becoming redundant and now they're making themselves unappealing. Convenient, economical dialups are now available to Europeans and any of us Yanks who have to travel to Europe regularly through various non-anus-kissing ISPs (xs4all, iSYS, etc.). Back in '90-'92 CI$ used to be somewhat handy when travelling to Europe, but even then it was horribly expensive when you tallied up their "surcharges" for dialing in through Frankfurt, etc. Good riddance, say I. dave ____________________________________________________________ "I prefer a real whorehouse to The Theatre." -Dorothy Parker
Dave Del Torto <ddt@lsd.com> writes:
I've decided to cancel my CrampuNerve account and send the weasels a msg to telling them why. I encourage everyone here to do the same with your CI$ account (if you still have one). These [insert colorful expletive here]s only understand one thing: cold ca$h. Thus, the only effective way to send them an indication of one's displeasure at their poor precedent-setting is to vote with one's wallet.
One could go one step further -- use free trial accounts to go to their local boards and chat rooms and tell the truth, uring others to leave. By the way, Cantor & Siegal were long-time CompuServe users before spamming Usenet with their green card ad.
Any who are still unfortunate enough to rely on CI$ for Internet/Usenet access are getting reamed price-wise anyway, not to mention suffering poor reliability and now access, so maybe a few of them could also take this opportunity to migrate to an ISP with some real "backbone."
A friend of mine tried to use CS to read Usenet and reported the following: * There's a very small limit on the size of an article to post to Usenet; * There's a tremendous delay before Usenet articles pass through their gateway; * He saw many articles at other sites that never made it to CS; he estimated that about 30-50% of Usenet articles just never get thru; * The expiration in many high-volume newsgroups is 3 days or less. (I don't know how true this is; his impressions may be wrong.) When he complained to CS about it, he was told that CS doesn't position itself as an Internet service provider. They have a lot of proprietary content that's not available via the internet. They don't expect people to use their services to use Usenet or Internet e-mail. And now comes the *point*: There's much information on CompuServe that cannot be accessed from the outside. One example is the very informative National Computer Security Association's forum. I think it would be a fitting response if NCSA removed their forum from CS. (There are other such for-pay forums, like SovSet', which can be accessed from the internet without paying anything to CompuServe). As it stands, there are people who will maintain their CS accounts to access the NCSA forum (even though they find CS's actions repugnant). If you don't like it, encourage the NCSA to move their forum elsewhere. --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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