Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Peter Mc Donough Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Net neutrality is dead Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 14:57:44 +0100 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <20171121172949.029d3854.rsw@therandymon.com> <20171214144925.0009894c.rsw@therandymon.com> <20171216161959@news.eternal-september.org> <2h9ige-2m22.ln1@news2.chingola.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net if5DpXYTegLVk5VJ6kkL5gsQRq8Fc1nM809xKxyl4SNHMRY/xI Cancel-Lock: sha1:PHc660uXdarIXR8K0rMiTOn2v9c= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:15179 Am 20.12.2017 um 10:19 schrieb Paul Sture: > On 2017-12-17, Peter Mc Donough wrote: >> Am 17.12.2017 um 14:54 schrieb Paul Sture: >>> On 2017-12-17, Huge wrote: >>> ... >>> I tried calling BT's Directory Enquiries to get the number of someone >>> who had switched and was told that without the name of the alternate >>> provider they couldn't help me. >> >> Which makes sense. Looking up a number cost time and that is money. Why >> should they spend what you save?. > > You are missing the point. The fact that I suddenly needed to know > someone's supplier was completely unexpected. I'd not heard it > discussed in any of the news items about Directory Enquiries that I'd > listened to. You are right. What I noticed, that often people expect some service without considering that providing that service will have to be paid by group "somebody". They are then astonished that they are suddenly assigned to group "somebody". cu Peter