At 2:14 -0400 4/18/02, Anne Keller-Smith wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is this supposed to be so hard, or am I missing something?
>
>My father decided to take advantage of Earthlink's trial deal.
>He turned the Mac on for the first time, and started on the Setup
>screen. After inputting all his info, it dialed up Earthlink and
>then wouldn't take his credit card. He called them up and they
>decided it was because of the middle initial on his credit
>card, which isn't asked for on the Setup screen.
>
>Then it wanted his local dialup number. Why can't
>Earthlink look this up itself? So then we had to call
>and get that. And then we had to call and get the mail
>server info.
>
>Then Earthlink says we'll have to separately configure PPP which
>makes NO sense. Is this right?

Sorry, I can't help you, but this is an example of why I dropped EarthStink.

Dennis

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