Re: I give up

["Don" <don@xxxxxx>]

"alarman" <alarman2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> One of my accounts suddenly misses a daily timer. I call the customer;
> "Oh, we had digital telephone service installed. And, oh, by the way, the
> "technician" said "the alarm wasn't hooked up right."
>
> Sooooo, your alarm system has sent signals daily since 1989, and
> now.....what...the $8.50/hour phone "technician" comes to your house
> and...NOW the alarm isn't "hooked up rught?????"
>
> Fast forward to service call: I go to the MPOE, yup. The "technician" has
> been there all right. He just cut the wiring that used to go to the
> protector terminals. But where is the cable company's SNI?  Walk around
> the house a couple of times...it's not there. Oh, ok. So it's NOT digital
> telephone service, it's VoIP. Yup. There's the modem right next to the
> computer, plugged into the phone jack. Sorry Mrs. customer, your Time
> Warner digital phone service is crap, and will not support your alarm
> system.
>
> Customer says I should maybe keep people advised of this.
>
> If only there were some way to publicize the wonders of VoIP...perhaps
> a...NEWSLETTER...like the one I just sent out to them in June. With the
> article on VoIP. Right there on the front page. In English. Small words.
> Big type.
>
> Kind of a rehash of the article I wrote and published last year in another
> newsletter.
>
> Similar to the one on my website.

what article did you use?  I need to send one out in a couple weeks.