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On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 7:06 PM, Corbin Bird <corbinbird@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Will act on the ( lawyer, deposit ) suggestions. And a new e-mail provider. |
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Good luck with that... |
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Honestly, I think a lawyer is a waste of money here. If you're in the |
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USA these sorts of arrangements are completely commonplace. It also |
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is common to put nonsense like "you can't talk to the FCC" in |
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contracts, though you can basically just ignore that sort of thing. |
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In any case, in the end the ISP is going to make a unilateral decision |
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about whether they're willing to bend any of their rules for you, and |
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if you don't like their decision your only options are internet or no |
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internet. |
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Yeah, it is stupid, but that's life in the USA. By all means talk to |
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your elected representative. Or, better still, contribute $100k to |
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their re-election campaign as that will get you a lot further. Be |
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prepared to outbid the ISP who no doubt has already made a nice |
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contribution. We can all commiserate about how lousy this is, but |
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you're wasting your time+money if you think you're going to win some |
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kind of legal battle with them. |
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Rich |
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