Charles Angelich (1:106/2000) wrote to Steven Horn at 05:05 on 17 Apr 2003:

 CA> 'Word of mouth' around here is that few people take their work
 CA> seriously doing _anything_ anymore. :-\

Now you are getting cynical.:-) 

 CA> I suppose so. There was a time when people could grasp the
 CA> concept that a few people are/were the exceptions. We are not all
 CA> the same.

Agreed.  I could not resolve a particular domain and the techies had to
bump two servers to clean up the corrupt domain cache. 

 CA> A decade or so ago I would've thought so too. I've given up
 CA> trying to find the one employee who cares. It's too time
 CA> consuming.

Is it worth changing your ISP?  I have that feeling you might be better
served by a 'mom and pop'shop if one exists. 

 CA> Yes, I'm sure they are far too busy to service the people who
 CA> actually _use_ the system. I think our priorities are a bit
 CA> skewed lately. 

The systems may well be more complex these days but in fairness to our
techies, the only unexpected system shutdowns we've had have been due to
power failures.  And that is someone else's system.
 
Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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