Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

From: Monique Y. Herman (spam_at_bounceswoosh.org)
Date: 10/25/03

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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 10:35:06 -0600

    On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 15:30 GMT, Conrad Newton penned:
    >
    > I would not mind having some advice, either. I wrote to the ISP, but
    > they addressed me as an idiot, explaining the meaning of "bounced
    > mail", when instead I wanted to know why they were getting an error
    > message of the form:
    >
    >

    I've had a lot of tech support (from banks to web sites to whatever) do
    this. I think they get so many ... naive questions that when they see
    certain words, they automatically reply with a boilerplate. My
    suggestion would be to reply to that email and say no, I understand what
    a bounce is, and that's not what I'm after ... and explain the rest of
    your concern. That, or actually call rather than email. Calling is
    nice because it's easier to escalate. OTOH, there's no paper trail.

    Tech support folks are generally overworked and underpaid --
    unfortunately, that results in a lot of "maybe he doesn't really know
    what he's talking about -- I'll send him this stuff and maybe he'll go
    away." And apparently it works, since you seem to imply that you
    accepted their answer as "no, we won't do that." 

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