On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:07, Andy George wrote: > Andrew Errington wrote: > >On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:47, you wrote: > ><snip> > > > >>Since I have heard that almost all ISPs are staffed by a symbiotic > >>collection of barely post-pubescent youths and semi-geriatric Ebenezer > >>Scrooges, I suppose that it's asymptotically close to a probability of > >>zero. > > > >That's a sweeping generalisation. I will counter it by saying I had > >excellent technical support from two techs at Xtra yesterday. Yes, > > Xtra. If I was to transfer to Xtra I would unfortunately lose my 'phone numbers and e-mail address. I have been caught by'lock-in'. Pain isn't it. I do have a gmail account, but that is basically reserved for emergencies and spammers only, simply because I don't want to give a bunch of Corporate Aliens - Even if their motto is "Do no Evil" - the opportunities of dredging through my _private_ email, or of shunting unwanted advertising messages up my optic nerves. On principle you understand.
> Check out the addresses CS was sending the bitch to... LUG, and CC > [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] So far the all the responses from those addresses have been mechanised. I am waiting with baited breath for a human authored response. > I believe Mr Sawtell has the art of complaining perfected more than is > made apparent... Very clever. Thanks. btw, I've only _just_ started. I want to give the underlings the chance of repairing the recalcitrant machine, or modem, which is sending all of us tens of thousands of packets every day addressed to port 67 from address 172.20.18.55. Unless it is being charged for, this traffic is probably little more than a confounded nuisance, but useless traffic should be stopped none the less. The total use of bandwidth must be astronomical. It beggars belief that the ISP and Network operator have not noticed this truly huge traffic volume which has been going on for several months. I wonder how much it has cost them? Bond paper correspondence at the Corporate level, can wait until the lower-level staff have proved that they are totally incompetent. -- CS
