1. Norvergence Sucks (Hoping This Gets Their Attention)
On Thursday, December 18, 2003, 6:24:54 PM, jt wrote: etdo> From: jt < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > etdo> Subject: Re: I am Threatened by an Attorney for Norvergence etdo> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:17:13 -0400 etdo> TELECOM Digest Editor < XXXX@XXXXX.COM > wrote in message etdo> news: XXXX@XXXXX.COM : >> On Wednesday afternoon, I received a phone call from an attorney >> representing Norvergence. He insisted that all the articles >> about Norvergence in our archives had to be removed. I told him etdo> To piss up a rope? etdo> (Think that *delicious* expression was part of a thread here a etdo> while ago ...) Thanks, that was me. I'm blushing over here. ;-) (I also introduced "horse hockey" to this forum, but that one doesn't seem to be quite as popular.) BTW, I've got copies of all the posts that Norvergence is worried about. While I'm quite certain that nothing's going to come of this, there's still a chance that the MIT legal staff may insist that Patrick remove this stuff from the archives. Should that come to pass, I've got copies of all of it and will not hesitate to make it available via my own websites and those of my friends. Doubtless the Norvergence legal people are reading this now. I say to you: go ye forth and multiply. Your attempts to intimidate won't get far with me, and I'm guessing with several others here who might also choose to follow suit and post the material far and wide. Right now, these posts are limited to a relatively small forum. One should be very careful when opening cans full of worms. If you persist, this is going to backfire on you, very badly. If that sounds like a threat, it is. Tit for tat. Joey Lindstrom [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I do not believe MIT would make such a demand either, but in the event they did, bear in mind that I am just a 'guest user' on the massis.lcs.mit.edu work station to begin with, and I would probably terminate that relationship entirely. I cannot and will not impose upon MIT to carry material on their spools they found offensive in one way or another. MIT owes me nothing, and I owe them a world of thanks for hosting c.d.t. and the Digest as long and to the extent they have. I've more than once given some thought to simply doing 'cd /common/telecom-archives' then doing 'rm archives/*', anyway; that would end any dissention on the topic. PAT]
2. Norvergence -- Getting out of a Matrix Contract
3. Getting out of Norvergence Contracts
It seems to me that the key here is the relationship between the leasing companies and Norvergence. If the leasing companies knew that Norvergence was wildly inflating the value of the equipment (and it seems likely that they did) then I believe a case could be made that the leasing companies took the assigned leases subject to the defenses that the customers had against Norvergence. The customers have plenty of defenses against Norvergence, and would therefore probably not have to pay anything on the leases. I think that at some point in the proceedings the leasing companies HAD TO KNOW that Norvergence was selling the customers a pig in a poke. I think that the leasing companies had knowledge that the customers were very dissatisfied, and that Norvergence was, in many if not most cases, not fulfilling its end of the bargain. Thus I think it's arguable that the leasing companies were complicit in the Norvergence scam. Another factoid of much interest: the leasing companies routinely sent out notices to the customers that the equipment had be be insured for the capitalized value of the equipment, which ranged from $20,000 to over $30,000 depending on the deal. Yet the leasing companies must have known that the true value of the equipment was in most cases less than $5,000. Thus I think it might be argued that the leasing companies were guilty of attempted insurance fraud by requiring greatly excess insurance on equipment that they knew (or should have known) wasn't worth anywhere near what they leased it for. What needs to happen here, in my view, is that the customers of the various leasing companies (CIT, Popular, OFC Capital, Partners Equity Capital, et al) need to band together and file class action lawsuits against them. The Internet is a perfect vehicle for bringing these various groups together. Someone should start a portal where customers of the various sites can meet up and band together to defend themselves. Once assembled into groups, the customers could seek declaratory relief that the leases are unenforceable, and that the leasing companies took the assignments from Norvergence SUBJECT TO any defenses that the customer had against Norvergence. I really think that faced with such lawsuits the leasing companies would back off. I don't think they want to get into discovery on this one. I suspect that discovery would show a lot more complicity on the part of the leasing companies in the Norvergence fiasco than they would like to have made public. N. Rackeertu [TELECOm Digest Editor's Note: Have I been saying essentially this same thing since the Norvergence flap first started or was I talking only to a rock somewhere? Everytime I print here a message of mine saying 'freeze all accounts payable to Norvergence' I get all sorts of replies saying my advice is bad and how all the Norvergence customers will get sued and their credit ruined if they take my self-help advice which is such a crock of baloney I feel like making myself a sandwich or two. I do concede it makes sense to hand over all your paperwork to your lawyer, put the matrix box away safely where the company can get it back it they want it back (also unlikely) then put your money away and get on with your life otherwise. That 'holder in due course' routine is such a laugh in this instance. That's what the loan companies claimed in the encyclopedia door-to-door sales scam many years ago also; so let's all hold our breath until we turn blue in the face while we wait for the leasing companies (i.e. 'bank') to quit their blustering and bullying and acting-out and get down to the business of suing everyone and ruining their credit. PAT]
4. does anyone know the correct pin outs for...
Proberbly missing something very obvious here, but here goes. On several sites we have a Passport 2430 and a Providers Cisco router. Originaly all traffic went direct from the PP's straight in our Head Office over ISDN / Frame or Kilostream with no problems (except all the ones you would expect) However we now run it down a provider IP Network and have come across an odd situation. The Passport is still on site and is still the default gateway, so all non local traffic hits this. This then points out to the Cisco via the ethernet interface and onto the other routes (any to any). The reason for this was to provide fail over should the providers router falls over. At first everything appears ok. Site can see other sites ok. Except the odd application runs very slow. However if we do a ping from a pc with a -l 1849 the PP responds fine (50ms average), but -l 1850 completly times out ! The cisco however can take a -l 15000 and still be ok! Rough plan PP2430>450>Cisco>Cloud>Head Office routers etc>My PC Back is reverse Any ideas? Stu..
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