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Code Red Refunds?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-think-about dept.

bubblegoose writes "In Washington state Qwest customers are asking for a refund due to losses of service during the Code Red thing. Qwest is refusing to give the refunds. Excite has a story about it here." I tend to think this is just complaining bull crap. My net connection when down too, and I don't run around demanding $5 back. I'd be more upset if I was a business and my server rooted by this. The irony is that this will probably end up just pushing subscription software.

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  1. What is temporary by Catskul · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So what happens if you are without service for a day, a week, a month? Does that count as temporary? This is a very gray area they could have a chance of getting the law on their side.

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  2. Re:Brilliant idea by fishbowl · · Score: 3, Insightful



    >The second option is that they can deny all
    >incoming requests to port 80, since the UA
    >forbids running servers anyway

    You are mistaken, and you have NOT researched
    the facts before posting this.

    *MY* agreement with Qwest expressly allows
    running servers. They are quite up-front and
    honest about the whole thing. It's what makes
    their relatively expensive, but somewhat slower,
    service an attractive choice in markets where
    there's cable or other dsl providers.

    They even offered to help me setup my LAN, my linux boxes, a static IP netblock, you name it.

    I would suggest that when you talk trash, you
    stick to subjects that you know something about.

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