Since this seems to be an on-going problem... How about creating a _new_ list called nanog-chat which can be used for this sort of purpose. This way, when somebody feels like chatting _AND HAS THE TIME_, they can skip over to the list, scan for a thread that looks interesting and participate. The regular nanog list can then be kept free of this clutter that many of us do not have time for. (My current inbox of nanog stuff is over 3,000 messages and it's a loosing battle. Doing _something_ to help the signal-to-chat ratio would be most helpful.) Ed On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Joe McGuckin wrote:

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Vary much not correct. All of our WORLDCOM circuits have been paid, and never were late. Worldcom terminated our service because NetRail refused to pay over 300K in circuits that NetRail never ordered. We have paid them this amount to get our network back up.

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We've had this problem with MFS in the past. Although it wasn't 300K!

After they threatened to pull the plug on all our circuits, we got MFS corporate accounts receivable on a conference call with our (then) weasley sales rep. After the AR manager learned that there was not a signed sales order for the circuits, he told the sales guy that the local office would have to eat the unpaid bill.

joe

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