On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:19:57 -0400, "Mortimer Schnerd, RN"
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote:

wrote:
providers call and ask for unique numbers from each box they change by
satellite, if you cant walk around your home and give them numbers
from each box you get shut down.

doing thisa is the same as going in a store and stealing merchandise


Bull****. In 15 years with DirecTV they have never called for any reason. On
the few occasions I've needed to call them we discussed the offending receiver
and none of the others were even mentioned.

Once they asked me for a card number (to be sure we were talking about
the same receiver). There was no mention of a phone connection. Those
receivers were just a couple of feet apart, but they could have been
hundreds* of miles apart (and I wrote the card numbers down here) and
they'd never know.

&&&

* - that could been thousands, but I did call about a problem with
(spot beam) local channels.
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