Comment Archive is good for keeping companies honest. (Score 1) 508
PacBell just jacked up my DSL price from 39 to49 a month. When I called to ask why, they lied and said the price was a special promotion.
Considering I signed up in March of 2000, how the hell should I remember?
Checking back in the archive I can find that they never said it was a promotion at all. They had a promotion where they gave away a free computer....I never got a free computer.
There seem to be two main objections. Concern over copyright violations? These are all items that were freely available to the public. They are also all no longer available. sounds like abandon-ware. If you want to make your work private, put up a password.
The other concern seems to be people embarrassed over something they used to have up. Who publishes something with the expectation that they will be able to disavow the publication in the future? Don't write it if you think you might be embarrassed by it later.
I propose that the possible positive impacts arising from consumer protection vastly outweigh the concerns over
1) a non-profit making free copies of something previously provided for people to freely copy.
2) poster's remorse (to poorly coin a term)
Considering I signed up in March of 2000, how the hell should I remember?
Checking back in the archive I can find that they never said it was a promotion at all. They had a promotion where they gave away a free computer....I never got a free computer.
There seem to be two main objections. Concern over copyright violations? These are all items that were freely available to the public. They are also all no longer available. sounds like abandon-ware. If you want to make your work private, put up a password.
The other concern seems to be people embarrassed over something they used to have up. Who publishes something with the expectation that they will be able to disavow the publication in the future? Don't write it if you think you might be embarrassed by it later.
I propose that the possible positive impacts arising from consumer protection vastly outweigh the concerns over
1) a non-profit making free copies of something previously provided for people to freely copy.
2) poster's remorse (to poorly coin a term)
