[300winmag]

Well, it looks like I'm making my break with Earthlink. The "live chat" with Pradeep was the last straw. Every one of my questions was answered with a canned macro reply. "It has not been that way since 2001." "So why did it stop working ten minutes ago?" "You are not on an Earthlink portal right now." "That's because I can only stay on for about five minutes, if I even connect at all, and that's at 20kbs."

I'm pretty much paid up with Earthlink for June, but I can use that time to reset all my email references, and stuff like that. I haven't even dialed in to my new ISP yet, but I did start pulling down newsgroups from the one PC here not on the corporate firewall.

I'll be freepmailing folks with my new email address as soon as it looks like this ISP is viable. As a creature of habit, you have no idea how much I loathe making a change after almost 10 years without trouble on Earthlink. But they flushed it all down the toilet tonight.

[Graybeard58]

bttt

[Fedora]

I'll be freepmailing folks with my new email address as soon as it looks like this ISP is viable. As a creature of habit, you have no idea how much I loathe making a change after almost 10 years without trouble on Earthlink. But they flushed it all down the toilet tonight.

I know what you mean there. I had the same email for quite a few years before I moved up here to learn my provider didn't have service here. Making the switch was definitely a pain.