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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Sciortino wrote:
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> "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message
> news:HGr3ML.1r2s@lugnet.com...
> > In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Max Maxwell wrote:
> > > Does anyone else out there hate Yahoo, especially Geocities? Their ads are
> > > relentless, customer service is non-existant, and replies to complaint and
> > > help emails are useless and written from a template! Does anyone
> > > agree/disagree with me, or am I alone on this subject?
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> I absolutely despise yahoo, but for even more reasons. My family has
> sbc-yahoo dsl. To start, it requires that you have a 300 MHz or faster
> machine to run the software. It checks to make sure your machine meets this
> requirement. So, my computer, being the only one in the house faster than
> that, got to be the lucky recipient of *15* separate pieces of software (ie,
> to uninstall, there are 15 separate entries in the windows uninstall applet,
> and woe to ye who uninstall in the wrong order--I literally could have
> reinstalled windows faster, and I should have...).
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> I remember surfing the net at T1 speeds in my dorm room 7 years ago on my
> pentium 133. But with all the crap yahoo put on my comp, it's no wonder
> they required a 300. After going through all the installation crap, I
> finally got what I wanted: a login and password for PPPoE. That was all I
> needed, but no, I had to install an entire cd's worth of junk onto my
> computer, only to plug these two tiny pieces of information into my router
> and be done with it.
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> Besides the rediculous amount of useless memory-hog-ware, it's just as
> expensive as any other dsl, slower, has crappy newsgroup retention, spams
> your email account with yahoo garbage (which you can turn off, but why
> should I have to do that?), and has the same "make sure the computer is on;
> is the computer plugged into the wall?" style tech support.
>
> Ahhhh... that felt good. :)
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> </rant>
>
> -- Tom
Really? I went with the local cable company's cable modem, and besides having
DHCP running (it was from all my years of LAN network games) I didn't have to do
a thing to my PC.
Plug it in, and et voila! Internet at high speed.
Oh, and with Internet Connection Sharing, all my systems are on-line (this part
took a wee bit of finnagling, but was well worth it.)
btw, the website
http://sparky.i989.net
resides on one of my systems at home, so basically 'free and unlimited' web
hosting.
I suggest you look at something else other than Yahoo.
Dave K
-who doesn't have a personal gripe against Yahoo--they hosted part of my site
for a few years before I got the cable modem, and never gave me any problem.
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| "David Koudys" <dkoudys@redeemer.on.ca> wrote in message news:HGs841.9Fu@lugnet.com... (...) having (...) to do (...) part (...) web (...) LOL... "you suggest I look at something else..." Well, yeah!!! ;) Nah, see the real problem is that I didn't (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| "Larry Pieniazek" <lpieniazek@mercator.com> wrote in message news:HGr3ML.1r2s@lugnet.com... (...) are (...) and (...) I absolutely despise yahoo, but for even more reasons. My family has sbc-yahoo dsl. To start, it requires that you have a 300 MHz (...) (21 years ago, 20-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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