filePro and "crossgrading"

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:02:05PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> > And since I'm the Designated Complainer...
> 
> Hey, I was complaining far before you were.  Talk about a lack of
> recognition!  Why, you don't even.....     You see?  :)

"I'd like an argument, please."

> > I might be wrong, but I actually think the policy postdates the last
> > big crossgrade we had to do; I suppose it's even possible that the
> > amount of grumping we did was what made them think about the issue,
> > though I really don't much care.  ;-)
> 
> Care, and be happy.  A fair amount of my ISP's higher end packages and
> pricing comes from the period where I was the only person doing things like
> shipping out 17gig/mo of web documents from their hosting, and got the
> prices lowered eventually.  I had a lot of little "extras" that normal
> users usually don't need/want so they eventually came up with a Power User
> plan that I was grandfathered into.  I've had a positive relationship with
> them, and we both benefit.

Cool.

> Sometimes being the one catalysing change can be bothe beneficial and
> gratifying.  Other times, it's a sheer PITA with -zero- reward and nothing
> but frustration.  I prefer to focus on the positive times though, or
> I'd go quite mad.  :).

And the difference between that and this would... be?

> Speaking of barking mad, apparently BellSouth and I have differing
> definitions of 10am.  At 2:30pm, I called to find out why my line -still-
> isn't fixed.  I was told they're still behind in this area, 6pm tonight.  I
> suspect that won't happen, but I can hope.  If/When they -finally- get this
> done, I'm calling customer service to discuss the prorated credit I believe
> I deserve after being lied to for five days.  *grouse*  I not yet -begun- to
> complain!  *cackle*

Indeed.

Your problem, by the way, is a high-resistance cross out in the plant
somewhere, likely from moisture incursion in a cable they forgot to
change the nitrogen bottle on.  When you take more phones off hook, you
draw more current, which heats up the moisture and dries it out
temporarily.

The hum comes from the fact that phone pairs are balanced quite
delicately to ground: you half-ground one side and all sort of ugliness
happens.

Cheers,
-- jra
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