RE: BT Going the same way as AOL?

["Phillip Harris" <phil@xxxxxxx>]

I use Fast24 usually but this morning I had to use BT...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 17 May 2002 07:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] BT Going the same way as AOL?
> 
> 
> Phil,
> 
> I don't know how to say this any more subtley, but...
> 
> CHANGE YOUR ISP 
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 17 May 2002 06:48
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] BT Going the same way as AOL?
> 
> 
> Could it be that BT Surftime is heading the same way as AOL 
> in being a "nanny ISP"?
> 
> I have just had to use BT for Internet access and set my 
> router up with the phone number that the BT Surftime 
> installer configures your machine with. I can send and 
> receive email fine on that account but if I try to go to 
> *ANY* web pages I get diverted to :
> 
http://www.btopenworld.com/numberchange/

Which hasn't changed (according to them) since 9th October 2001!

If I install their fecking software on my lappy and dial out on a modem
on
the same number then all is well and I can get to web sites normally.

Gits! I don't want my browser BT branded and their ruddy installer
changes
loads of settings that I just don't want changed...

Phil



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