OT: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits

Scott Weeks surfer at mauislanwanman.com
Mon Jul 22 21:04:02 UTC 2002




On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Scott Francis wrote:

: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:00:44AM -0700, alan_r1 at corp.earthlink.net said:
: >
: > (shooting self in foot...)
: >
: > Just eliminate tech support and proprietary software! "A list of our
: > settings is available at www.domain.com/settings. And don't call us with
: > tech problems. We don't do tech support."
: >
: > I know of at least one ISP out there already doing this. Not that they're
: > highly successful, but imagine not having to tell someone, "Yes, your
: > username and password are case sensitive and must be spelled exactly as
: > supplied. And it's .net, not .com" ever again.
:
: http://www.flex.com/
:
: Unfortunately, it looks like they took down the hate mail page, which was
: hysterical. *sigh* They target clueful users only, and seem to be getting by
: just fine. http://www.flex.com/adsl/ has a bit more of the "intelligent users
: only" pitch.



One of Hawaii's fun things...  ;-)

http://www.flex.com/net_status/fan_con.html

scott





"sorry sir but i find AOL easy to use, i didnt know that since AOL is a
helluva lot easier to use than freakin IE im considered computer
illteritate, just quit bashing AOL, not all of us are sado-masochists."



*heh* no need to comment, but it surely is begging for it... :-)




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