Venting of spleen!

[Maggi Young]

Another tweet to us from BTCare :

BT ‏@BTCare 23m23 minutes ago

@ScottishRockGC Apologies to all BT Yahoo email customers having difficulty logging & sending/ receiving mail. Yahoo are working to resolve

[David Nicholson]

I'm using his now patented technique and we have the CEO from Thames water coming over to work out why the drains smell a bit funny and the Marketing Director of Southern electric is popping in to change a light bulb on the landing.

 

Suppose, if either of them hurt their thumb you could call my namesake from the NHS to pop round with a plaster?

[Graeme]

BT are having ongoing issues with their e-mail following the changes from yahoo - to be honest on a basic infrastructure basis its making them look like a bunch of amateurs (which they are) I have sent a 10 page e-mail to their technical department outlining all the current difficulties I am having with their web servers.  Too be honest I am going to vote with my feet after Christmas and move to another ISP, its just such a pain. 

The biggest difficulty for me is that they have deleted all the filtering that I set up which moved e-mails into certain folders - the spam filter they have now is also next to useless.

I am also still in dispute with their legal department over the day they thought it would be a good idea to nail a new cable across the front of my property - without informing me first - their legal department didn't seem to understand the concepts of trespass and criminal damage - but they *loody well understand the legal concepts now....................

And for Maggi when dealing with them - just think about the piece of Amiga software which opening screen was pink - and contained this statement - "what are the similarities between BT and a flamingo - they can both stick their bills up their (and I will let your imagination fill in the rest)"

[johnstephen29]

I felt that way too Graeme so I kicked them into touch and went with sky, couldn't be happier.

[johnralphcarpenter]

John Lewis broadband and phone are pretty good.

[David Nicholson]

I felt that way too Graeme so I kicked them into touch and went with sky, ...............

............... who get their email service from Yahoo who are the root cause of the problem we are all having today!

[David Nicholson]

John Lewis broadband and phone are pretty good.

not very competitive though?

[David Nicholson]

............................I am also still in dispute with their legal department over the day they thought it would be a good idea to nail a new cable across the front of my property - without informing me first - their legal department didn't seem to understand the concepts of trespass and criminal damage - but they *loody well understand the legal concepts now....................

And for Maggi when dealing with them - just think about the piece of Amiga software which opening screen was pink - and contained this statement - "what are the similarities between BT and a flamingo - they can both stick their bills up their (and I will let your imagination fill in the rest)"

That's my boy

[johnralphcarpenter]

not very competitive though?

Don't know. They claim to be never knowingly undersold, but you would have to do a comparison. The service is provided by PlusNet, who are based in Yorkshire so that should appeal!

[David Nicholson]

All good things...................................

[Neil]

Plus Net are part of BT.

[David Nicholson]

Not so good things...............................

[Tony Willis]

not very competitive though?

Paying for something that does not work seems more expensive to me.

I have Virgin and it isexcellent.

[johnralphcarpenter]

Plus Net are part of BT.

Acquired by BT in 2007 but operated as a separate company. John Lewis are very jealous of their reputation so would not partner with a service that does not work. We haven't had many problems - the occasional drop-out which is quickly restored; and there are 7km of copper wire between us and the street cabinet.

[art600]

I understand your anger, David - I am feeling the same myself. For someone who is the destination for all the  email for the SRGC site and  the seed exchange - this current failure is a flippin' nightmare.

 I am inclined, privately , to use more robust  language and terms to describe my fury. 
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 So much for "British Telecom"  -  I would probably have a wider access to the world using a one legged , one winged stuffed carrier  pigeon.
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Maggi

Where can I get the irate Tony Blair caricature   


Once transferred from Yahoo my BT service has been almost 100%  Like free BT Sport with my package and would not return to SKY who are very expensive.
Cannot get Virgin, but might consider them when available.