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Re: [LUG] Free Linux based computer with broadband connection

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> On Thursday 28 September 2006 02:16, Michael Mortimore wrote:
>> obviously they aren't too dumb to realise. npower are tho. i signed up
>> a year ago on the website, and when we went to close the account in
>> july they hadn't heard of us. they had however been happily supplying
>> us with power for a year.
> We had the reverse - we lived somewhere for 11 years and every year were 
> threatened with court action over non payment buy british gas who did not 
> supply us through a meter we didn't have that they checked we didn't have and 
> agreed we didn't have, and then threatened us again.
> Got it sorted and moved here!
> Tom et tom
> 
> 

I heard a similar story from an IT teacher of old... their 'system' 
would send him bills for £0.00 as you may imagine he just binned them. 
he was summoned to court by the 'system' and ended up having to write 
them a cheque for £0.00 to settle the bill and get disconnected.

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Neil Stone

Systems Administrator
FlashTek UK

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