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Lloyd, you say the most outlandish things. How do you pull a person's internet connection?

(get your mind out of the '70s and join us in the 21st century for once)

I don't think so. We should encourage him to jump only in places where there are no people under him. The Gold Gate Bridge is a good example.

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Learn something _about_ the 21st century. It would be impossible to keep him 'pulled' unless we got him committed to a maximum security nut ward, but you certainly can get an ISP to drop someone, upon proof of some criminal activity (or even intent, in some cases).

Unfortunately, the only criminal activity he appeared to be doing when I cut his cord was his breathing.

Lloyd

You are showing that you don' t understand email. You all are stuck in the '70s. Even if someone's service is cut in one place, they just go to the ne xt. And when they are away, they just get someone else to say or print out what they wrote and then type responses for them.

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Nah... it's not _keeping_ him away from email and usegroups that would be the maddening part for him. What would send that sort of mental case over the edge would simply be _being_terminated_ by his ISP. Of course he could go wait in line at the public library in order to send out his spew, but...

However, you're right about my not thinking out one thing -- he's probably such a deadbeat that he's been dropped a dozen times for non-payment!

Lloyd

It takes enough people complaing to an internet provider, and sometimes threats to sue them for hosting an online stalker. That's what it took to get rid of 'skippy'. I forwarded his death threats, and told them I was turning them over to the police.

The local library wouldn't let me access any news server when my phone service was out. I couldn't access Google Groups so my guess is that they had already had some fool abuse them, and blocked the IP addresses.

I have a prepaid cellular modem as a backup. It's usually available during an electricity outage and costs nothing when not enabled.

It has lower system priority than voice calls and isn't always faster overall than my dialup because it halts completely at peak call times such as around 9AM. Off-peak it's 10 - 20 times faster, almost enough to keep up with Youtube.

Cell service sucks around here. Too many users, and the NIMBYs raise hell about building more towers. I use a Magic Jack 2014 that plugs into my router. That takes care of a clean phone line, when Brighthouse isn't asleep at the switch, or busy downgrading quality.

Mine is poor too, but good enough to watch near-live weather radar (so is dialup) and it's faster at night when I use it for large program updates. I have two semi-reliable dialup ISPs and am considering dropping the more expensive for cellular, as they appear to share the same trunk coming into the modem pool.

DSL isn't an option for my long, old copper pair, although the phone company switched me to a cleaner spare pair, removed the filters and bridge taps from it and cut it off beyond my house. It helps to know what to ask for.

-jsw

Water pollution!

He's a wife-beater...that kinda' says it all, doesn't it?

Isn't it a shame that *anyone* is universally disliked so much? It would seem to me that Jon would take stock and make adjustments in the way people perceive him and not be such an asshole.

What is needed is to replace the crap underground wire. There are no clean pairs left, and my house is the last one in the subdivision. It is one mile from the transition to fiber. I doubt they will do anything, till they convert everything to fiber. Centrylink isn't just a name, it's how long it takes to get something fixed. I only get 20 dialup hours a month on my Earthlink Broadband account. Even during sustained outages.

Any time there is an emergency or severe weather, the cell towers are loaded to capacity with people unable to connect. It's like the Army. We'll fix that in a few years, when it fails completely. It's not in the next two year's budgets.

It's unlikely that he can "take stock." Jon obviously has a chronic condition of some kind. A decade ago it expressed clearly as something akin to bipolar disorder. Now, either he's medicated, or what we see is the long-term, depressing effect of living with whatever it is he has.

He just keeps piling up sandbags around himself.

Then he belongs in New Jersy.

Well, I can't imagine that anyone would be that way by choice, so it must be a medical condition. Why does he not seek help? Or, is he just too far gone?

He may have sought help. Since he has no visible means of support -- especially since he's not bragging about his job, which he does whenever he has one -- it seems likely he's on SSI or some comparable state disability welfare.

To get that, you need certification by a medical professional. So the most likely situation is that he's gotten himself declared mentally disabled, he's on disability, and he lives in a subsidized project somewhere.

That doesn't mean they've cured him. It just means he's not in a mental institution. Or maybe he is.

My guess is he's on an SSRI.