Also sprach Hal Murray
I considered calling the PUC to see how things like that should get handled but didn't get around to it.
Unfortunatly, its been my experience that the PUCs are not in much better shape when trying to figure out how something like this should be handled than someone like many people on this list that have a large amount of experience dealing with the telco network. I'm really coming to the conclusion, having worked with Kentucky's PUC (Public Service Commission here) quite a bit in the past year, that they are very good intentioned, but just don't have detailed issues like this get brought up to them very often. I've been watching some of the cases that have been coming before the KY PSC recently, and it can get quite humorous...not to play them down, but there's a lot of joe blow consumer residential phone customer saying that they shouldn't have to pay their phone bill for some contrived reason or another...usually phone bill totals in the double digits...nothing earth shattering. There are the slamming cases that get brought before them quite a bit, but very rarely are there real, significant, telecom policy impacting, convoluted technical issues types of cases brought before at least the KY PSC...of course we are kind of in an area that doesn't have a huge reputation for being technologically advanced (yes, I *am* wearing shoes! ;) but it is rather interesting for the *lack* of significant cases in this realm. -- Jeff McAdams Email: jeffm@iglou.com Head Network Administrator Voice: (502) 966-3848 IgLou Internet Services (800) 436-4456