

ok, to get things started a true story of how my internet service provider finally joined the many other trend fallowing internet service providers and cheated me out of an equal to what i am paying them to stay connected.
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a number of years back i chose a local internet service provider because of location, i can always go through the business door and speak in person to individuals involved. this is a handy idea in that person to person is always better then through the mail when paying bills. this eye to eye contact works out differences sooner then mail or phone. then i can rest more assured things are working correctly.
for years i used this internet service provider ( the vilage link. check it out at http://asheville.thevillagelink.com/ ) without any real trouble because things were simple. i was only interested in the internet connection. even though they had no anti-virus software in place and i had not for years learned how to access the free email they gave me i was happy. i used my own ant-ivirus program ( both the free avg anti-virus and the free clamwin worked fine with me ) and managed to dig up a few email box providers online. a couple years after i started using the village link as my internet service provider i happened on to what was once called marketscore. i had enjoyed my brief encounter with marketscore but darned if they were not hard to find, they had been moving around! now marketscore had hooked up with a protector and went by the larger name e-trends ( http://www.e-trends.com/Home.aspx ). their purpose is to help provide for consumers by relaying a consumer's information to producers. e-trends even went so far as to offer a little money incentive to their members participating in the surveys e-trends received finished. this was nice and gave me a little extra pocket money quarterly. then something happened that threw me off a little...
for about half a year i was having trouble connecting through the village link. being the trusting individual that i am i never gave any thought to it being their fault. each time i would try and log onlone i would have to repeat the dial up several times before i would loose the message my username was wrong and be connected. then after half a year i tried to use a couple free time limited internet service provider i kept for this very reason. i thought, may be by comparing the ease of all three i can get a better idea of what is happening. well, immediately i saw i could connect through both of them ( netzero and juno ). hmmmmm! the next day i called my local internet service provider. lol and behold, they had finally joined the rank of the likes of america online, are paying their server programmers now to insert language capable of booting their inactive member computers offline. the lady there tells me ( after checking her computer against my name ) "i see you have been with us a long time, there are a lot of our idle users just wasting internet time and this causes a trouble with the lines connecting the few at work, we have started putting a block to this in place, i will change your user name by simply adding a number to its end, now you should have less trouble connecting." ouch!
now i am forced to use small programs that keep me connected ( no where in the agreement with those at the village link is it said "i/you can not use software that alters the function of their software" ). as of yet i have not used the worst of the type which alters the function intended by the programmers working for the village link. my software has internet urls included that it browses so never really am i idle. about the worst my software does is imitate mouse movements. what the village link has done is cut this old 54 year old man out of a quarterly check from e-trends equal to what i pay the village link for their service of keeping me connected. ouch, ouch! not a big deal to most people, especially the younger people who always manage to find a fast buck without trouble.
well you all...my audience, what do you think of this, post your comments please?
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