[Cialug] hating Mediacom, was opportunity iowa

Theron Conrey cialug@cialug.org
Wed, 04 May 2005 12:56:58 -0500


I'm feeling to lazy to growl.......


D. Joe Anderson wrote:

>On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:51:44AM -0500, Chris Hilton wrote:
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>>Oh yay, another item in my long list of reasons why I loathe Mediacom.
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>As opposed to hating people too lazy to trim their quotes.  I
>growl in your general direction a SECOND time!
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>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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