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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 09:54:15 +0100
Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> wrote:

> The one thing that the fiber companies can to well is lying at the
> customer, for example sending sales people from door to door with the
> news that the residents MUST buy fiber because their DSL will be
> turned off and decommissioned "later this year" and that they will be
> without Internet if they don't sign up with the fiber company.

It's astonishing how blatant salesgoons are about this kind of thing.
When $EMPLOYER got acquired by another company a few years back, we had
a competitor running around telling customers our product was "going
away" and even pretending to be the official replacement. Naturally,
they said this over the phone rather than in an e-mail, so we never got
anything legally actionable on them...