[Cialug] hating Mediacom, was opportunity iowa

[D. Joe Anderson]

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:51:44AM -0500, Chris Hilton wrote:
> Oh yay, another item in my long list of reasons why I loathe Mediacom.

As opposed to hating people too lazy to trim their quotes.  I
growl in your general direction a SECOND time!

I don't know about hating Mediacom, but I do (temporarily) hate
a particular Mediacom user, who has had the lease for their IP
number 12.216.46.153.  I've seen a ton of what I'm guessing is
the latest Microsoft virus from this address.  Given that I see
this going mostly to local user group addresses, it's a good bet
its someone subscribed to cialug, amesfug, etc. and who therefor
has those addresses in their address book.  Best argument yet
for the linux-elitists/crackmonkey approach to mailing lists:
Reject mail from non-free mailers (yeah, yeah, I know there are
good arguments *against* such restrictions, just humor me this
mini-rant, OK?)

Please check your mchsi leases and clean up your freaking
Windows box(es).

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-- 
Joe
 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 
> >To make a long a story short, Mediacom (and others) are lobbying to pass
> >legislation that will make it impossible for Municipalities to use to
> >tax dollars to build fiber networks connecting the homes.
> >
> >They wrongly use the ICN as a failed example. The telco's got
> >legislation passed the prevents the ICN from making fiber connections
> >past the point of presence in each community.  That is what killed the
> >ICN.
> >
> >They present Opp Iowa as a bad thing, when really opp Iowa's position is
> >to use tax dollars to build the infrastructure, and then let anyone
> >provide services. Mom & Pop ISP's, Telco's Municipalities, etc.  Its
> >good for everyone, unless you already have a monolopy providing mediocre
> >services.
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D. Joe Anderson         http://www.etrumeus.com/~deejoe
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