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   From: BtB@BB.not.aaaaaaa   
      
   Rich Ahrens  wrote in   
   news:4981b74a$0$92367$804603d3@auth.newsreader.iphouse.com:   
      
   > on 1/27/09 7:04 PM Beauciphus said the following:   
   >> It seems our friend in France is without his internet connection.   
   >> According to his blog, he lost his internet connection, spent three   
   >> days pay on a new reouter, and shortly thereafter lost his email and   
   >> web server.   
   >   
   > "I finally connected with someone who sounded like a real technician   
   > at France Télécom, during banking hours, and after making it clear to   
   > him that I was not a standard dolt and that we could skip all the   
   > cookbook questions (“Is the PC plugged in?” “Do you see the Web page   
   > in front of you?” and so on), we spent considerable time discussing   
   > the problem and my test results. He managed to convince me that it   
   > might be the router on my side, even though this didn't seem entirely   
   > congruent with the symptoms I had seen."   
   >   
   > Can you imagine the hell that tech went through, having to argue with   
   > a nonstandard dolt?   
   >   
      
      
   OMG I hope they recorded it.   
      
   The poor guy probably needed counseling though.   
      
   Bertie   
      
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