[Discuss] Anyone Else?

[John Blomfield]

Darren Duncan wrote:
> Speaking for my household, we have been using Shaw's pipe service 
> since March of 2000.  We have never used any other internet related 
> services of theirs; our email and websites are hosted with a separate 
> dedicated hosting company, Baremetal, since 1999.
>
> I don't think my household has ever gotten email from Shaw; all our 
> contact from them has been by snail mail, and that was just the bills. 
> So never saw the message in question nor any similar ones.
>
> The current modem we have with Shaw is the exact same box we got from 
> them when we started using their service (a Teryan).  It never had a 
> standby button and even now that I know some modems do, I don't see 
> the use of having one in general.
>
> Regarding the comment about someone getting their modem "for free", I 
> don't think that was the case.  AFAIK, if you haven't "bought" your 
> modem, you are actually paying a rental fee to Shaw, around $4 per month.
>
Yes, that's the point. When I started with Shaw their was no option to 
buy it was just part of the package.  If you wanted Shaw you got their 
modem as well.  I don't think I would get a reduction of $4 per month if 
I returned it, do you?

John

> Come to think of it, perhaps we should by our modem or a modem to save 
> on this.  Not that buying was feasable when we started on the service 
> though ... all modems were rented, and to actually buy one would have 
> probably cost a thousand dollars, or so I recall hearing, perhaps 
> wrongly.
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
> P.S.  This is my very first non-test email that I sent following my 
> switch to Thunderbird (2.0.0.12) from Eudora (6.2.4) after using some 
> Eudora since we started on the 'net in 1997.  The switch involved 
> migrating around 2000 mailboxes and 300,000 archived messages. 
> Hopefully it will all work out.
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