Re: Slamming OT

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

you neglected to say whether you're a subscriber of both of these
companies.  Also, I suspect that there's a bit more fine print, or
accompanying documents.

Were I faced with the same situation, I would either ignore the
messages or write an unambiguous letter directing my company not
to permit switching.
                        Regards,
                                Jack

Adam was by constitution and proclivity a scientist; I was the same, and
we loved to call ourselves by that great name...Our first memorable
scientific discovery was the law that water and like fluids run downhill,
not up.
                          Mark Twain, <Extract from Eve's Autobiography>

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Jim Green wrote:

> I have been getting repeated notices from USWest and now Quest that I
> should sign a document which will allow the phone company NOT to switch my
> service from my current carrier to another.
>
> They seem to be putting a lot of effort into this project.  These continual
> offers make my paranoid mind nervous.  What do _they_ get out of it??
>
> Why do they need my permission not to switch my service without my
> permission.  Why don't they just not switch it _until_ they _get_ my
> permission???
>
> All this seems Byzantine to me.  Anybody have a clue?
>
>
>
> Jim Green
> mailto:JMGreen@sisna.com
> http://users.sisna.com/jmgreen