Tuesday, November 15, 2005
The Annotated 1st Post (or: Open Letter To Blogharbor)
(From mah old blog):
Dear Blogharbor,
In January of 2004 I had finally decided to act upon something that had been burning at me for some time, the desire to get things off my chest. And as the radio stations were hardly knocking down my door clamoring for my skills, I had decided to use blogging as my tool of choice for communication. I had looked around at what was out there for the would-be blogger and after careful consideration, I selected your company to use. Yes, there was a $6.95 a month charge involved, but I thought it was worth it.And we had some good times. But there have been some problems. There was the time I spent hours deleting comments that were spam and p@rn (I have to spell it that way because basically said you couldn't stop all of it and I have to work to stop it, too.
And there's the hours that my blog is offline because of all the work you're doing on your system.
And there was the problem you had with billing me, where you sent me an e-mail that I suspected was spoofing. And when I raised the question about it, your customer service rep, John Keegan, could have been more helpful if he weren't such a jerk. He apparently couldn't understand my statement about keeping an eye on things (and inferred that he was shocked that I would suggest that something improper may go on with the information I provided, as the Internet is such a secure bastion of commerce),; nor my suggestion that perhaps payment could be better handled than a secured e-mail, say via their web-site. His reply was that there was no other way to let people know about billing problems, as they don't blog all the time, why he only blogs every couple of months, as he is so busy providing sterling customer service (I'm unemployed while he has a job? Lord, you have no sense of justice)
Gee, if there was only some way I could vent my frustration with how I am being treated, to get the word out, like a blog...wait a tick! Oh, and there's this, too (fans might be well advised to bookmark this spot, in case something "happens" to this site) And did you know they don't charge me for keeping a blog there? If it weren't for seeing everything I wrote disappear into the ether, I'd pull the plug right now. As it is, I'm thinking about it.
Those of you who came here from Newsweek as a result of my posting about this article, or anyone else that came here and feel inspired to start a blog, may I suggest this company?
Dear Blogharbor,
In January of 2004 I had finally decided to act upon something that had been burning at me for some time, the desire to get things off my chest. And as the radio stations were hardly knocking down my door clamoring for my skills, I had decided to use blogging as my tool of choice for communication. I had looked around at what was out there for the would-be blogger and after careful consideration, I selected your company to use. Yes, there was a $6.95 a month charge involved, but I thought it was worth it.And we had some good times. But there have been some problems. There was the time I spent hours deleting comments that were spam and p@rn (I have to spell it that way because basically said you couldn't stop all of it and I have to work to stop it, too.
And there's the hours that my blog is offline because of all the work you're doing on your system.
And there was the problem you had with billing me, where you sent me an e-mail that I suspected was spoofing. And when I raised the question about it, your customer service rep, John Keegan, could have been more helpful if he weren't such a jerk. He apparently couldn't understand my statement about keeping an eye on things (and inferred that he was shocked that I would suggest that something improper may go on with the information I provided, as the Internet is such a secure bastion of commerce),; nor my suggestion that perhaps payment could be better handled than a secured e-mail, say via their web-site. His reply was that there was no other way to let people know about billing problems, as they don't blog all the time, why he only blogs every couple of months, as he is so busy providing sterling customer service (I'm unemployed while he has a job? Lord, you have no sense of justice)
Gee, if there was only some way I could vent my frustration with how I am being treated, to get the word out, like a blog...wait a tick! Oh, and there's this, too (fans might be well advised to bookmark this spot, in case something "happens" to this site) And did you know they don't charge me for keeping a blog there? If it weren't for seeing everything I wrote disappear into the ether, I'd pull the plug right now. As it is, I'm thinking about it.
Those of you who came here from Newsweek as a result of my posting about this article, or anyone else that came here and feel inspired to start a blog, may I suggest this company?
# posted by Tony Collett @ 7:04 PM 
