I got two things that can blow that spam story out the water....
#1: Back in like kinda late 90's, my grandma wanted to get back online. So after doing some research, I figured getting her Compuserve would be suffient (She hated Aol, but wanted ease) By the time I got her set up I noticed she had mail. Thinking it would just be one of those notice letters, I opened her mailbox. There were about 10 messages. She clicked on one and it had this picture of a girl and lets just say her face had some extra whiteness on it... #2: I got a mediacom email address w/their cable service. I had my two main email services (1 professional and 1 for friends) but since my mediacom one was just my name...I decided I would start using it. I opened it up in outlook and thankfully I had some antivirus protection that also protected email.... There was at least 10 messages that either the Sesser worm or that MyDoom. It was all pure porn mail, w/viagra and russian brides included. I called mediacom and told them about my comptuer being potentially taken over and all they could say is someone probably got a hold of my email address online somehow (....) or someone was just taking wild guesses and found one that's active So yea, if anyone can beat those stories, then I'll be shocked --- In [email protected], "John Cheek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all, he did give you a line of crap. I used to have SBC DSL. And > I would not recommend it to anyone. I have had so much smoke blown up my > rear by SBC it is not funny. If you have a 3mb line, as it can be done, it > is not easy to run it at 100%. That would be a lot of constant, concurrent > downloads running without end. Setting it lower did nothing but limit your > bandwidth. He probably turned you down to 300k or 700k. > > I have had 2 huge problems with them. The first was within a month of > having their service, I was already getting spam. Considering the email > address I chose, it is not one that could have been easily guessed. When > the spam started arriving, there were only 2 people that knew my address, Me > and SBC. I had not given it out to anyone which left SBC. They kept > telling me that they do not give out email addresses. Since I never gave > mine out, I wonder who did. > > My second problem with them was when my connection got so bad I could not > load a webpage and download a file at the same time. If I was downloading a > file, the webpage would time out. If I was loading a webpage, the download > would timeout. SBC had the nerve to tell me that this was normal. After I > told them that even on a 56k modem I could open several pages at the same > time, and download several files at the same time, everything would appear. > Granted it would be slow, everything would appear. The man then tried to > tell me that I did not know what I was talking about and there was nothing > wrong with the service. > > I guess having A+, Toshiba Associate Technician, HP Certified Technician, > Dell Certified Technician, IBM Certified Technician, MS Outlook 2000, MS > Outlook 2002 and, MS PowerPoint 97 certifications means that I do not know > anything. > > Anyway, that is my $0.02 worth of experience. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2005 12:41 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [A-1-Computer_Tech] SBC line of crap ? > > > > Here's something weird that a tech told me from SBC. I have SBC DSL and he > said the reason my connection to the DSL network keeps disconnecting is "you > > are using your 3 mb line at 100%" He then set it lower and now it takes 10 > minutes to download a 15 mb file vs the 1 1/2 - 2 minutes or so it took > before. I > know I'm not a tech, but even that doesn't sound logical. Now if I am > downloading from another server and try downloading a 15 mb file on AOL, it > takes > 20 minutes. > > I was also surprised that he was running a test and he said he had nothing > to compare it to. It seems that there is not a DSL within a two block > radius > of me...... If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
