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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default Looks like Earthlink's connection to Giganews is down again.


Wes wrote:

"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

Then they
wanted remote access to my computers to 'change a few settings' even
though it died in the middle of downloading a message.


What freaking planet are they from? Might as well ask for banking password and the safes
combination while they are at it.



I told him that I wouldn't let anyone have access to my computer, and
that I had been in the computer business from the early '80s. he
insisted that they didn't have a problem, so it must be all five of the
computers I had on my network. I posted the entire conversation on one
of the Earthlink related newsgroups when I finally got back on usenet.


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