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Article #624201Re: Computers, anyone?
From: JimP
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:43
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:43
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:53:24 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >On 28 Jun 2018 18:31:09 GMT >Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote: > >> On 2018-06-28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >> > On 28 Jun 2018 16:52:40 GMT >> > Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >> > >> >> Yup. Now almost everyone is something like jdo...@monopoly.com. >> > >> > They get their email from Hasbro ? >> >> *applause* >> >> I'm talking to a local community broadband supplier about getting >> 1Gbps symmetrical fibre to the premises. I asked whether they provide >> an email forwarding service, to which their reply was "go to Google". > > With 1G symmetrical I'd be inclined to go for DIY, but then I went >for that with 70/6 LTE with backup MX from junkemailfilter.com (they do >free MX backup to get more data for their paid spam filtering service). > >> In fact, their reply to everything was "go to Google". > > Bletch. My brother-in-law called his ISP for tech support, to get back online. The morons told him to go to their web page. His reply was, "How can I get to your web page, if I cannot get online?" Repeat, rinse, repeat. He got the corporate office on his cell, and told them the problem. Presto. His Internet connection came back up.
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