In article <[log in to unmask]>,
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> Well lets see.......
>
> 1) It was always said that this system was not a production system.  It was
>    beta!!!!
>
> 2) Beta means not ready for people to use, and could not work at any time.
 
Beta means ready for people to use, but may contain bugs and errors and the
service is not in it's final form.  If it meant that it was not ready for
people to use, beta releases would not be released.
 
> 3) Novell uses these things called containers to hold all the users in an NDS
>    tree, and if I understand right, Having all the students in one container
>    called "student" can be somewhat of a headache (Boyd correct me If i am
>    wrong) And an outage of you being without PPP for a couple of days is a
 very
>    low concern for the better service that changing this could give you.
>
> 4) If you are familar with the Student NDS login, you would remember that last
>    year at this time all the passwords were redone.  This is in part to the
>    fact that the student account were recreated and you were allowed to login
>    to servers that you may need to use for class.  Now I'm no expert on NDS
 and
>    there may be a better way to recreate without destroying pervious
 passwords.
>    Just deal with it because it is done.
>
> 5) If you are so upset about the service that was provided for the summer.
 Why
>    don't you go purchase an ISP account from someone like Netcom, FUSE,
 IAC....
>    Oh... you can also pay at least $20.00 a month.  Maybe that will get you on
>    at any time. But wait you have to pay for that.
 
Excuse me, although I agree with your little uncalled for rant up to this
point, I must point out an all-to-obvious fact to the majority of us: WE ARE
PAYING FOR THIS!  We all (students at least) were charged a new fee to pay
for this as well as paying over $7000 a year to attend Miami.  I know of no
other $7000/year internet service provider.
 
> 6) These two weeks befor classes start is the time when the least number of
>    students are on campus so this seems like the best time to do this.
>
>
> Paul S. Gentle
 
Our fees were due to be paid on August 5th I believe.  That date has now past.
Miami has my $3500 and I haven't received anything but headaches and troubles
for it.  If you desire to needlessly rant about the complaining taking place
due to the PPP troubles, perhaps you should research the number of services in
which you must pay in full before receiving any help and then once you have
paid, cannot complain because it's just supposed to be publically accepted
that these things take time.
 
I understand that this has been a temporary situation while the new internet
service was being set-up, but at this point in time, it has been "under
construction" for over three monthes and has not made any noticable progress
since early July.
 
I've paid my dues, now I want to see results.  I'm tired of being jerked around
by Miami.
 
                                        -Josh Graves