strange.goings-on@btinternet.com

 

This page contains links to some of the more bizarre and/or off-topic messages and threads that have appeared in the 'closed' (BTi customers only) newsgroups btinternet.announce, btinternet.support and btinternet.whinge. It is provided as a service to those who

  • have have not outgrown student humour or
  • are considering subscribing to BTi or
  • are considering taking employment with BTi Support or
  • having quit BTi, are suffering from a bout of nostalgia
and may help explain both why the creator of this site stayed with BTi for so long and why he finally signed up with another provider.

A Warning to those who disapprove of "strong language": usenet is a largely unregulated medium and some of the messages quoted on this site contain expletives both ancient and novel. The creator of this site generally chooses to avoid the use of such language for both stylistic and snobbish reasons, but would far prefer to ignore the delicate susceptibilities of the "polite" than to give succour to those who would remove free speech from usenet. He does, in any case, appreciate well-phrased invective - a classic example of which can be found in these pages.

 

 

 

Filtering water, worms and Yorkshire tea

 

Dear Steven
BT introduces Surftime

  

BT Apologises
John Ding and the Locked Mailbox

 

One or two problems
Dominic in silk and warm custard

  

Not Support
BT Internet and Mr Hyde

 

Something for the weekend
Missing mail

 

Miscellany

 

 

 

And from alt.internet.providers.uk.btinternet ...

  

 

 

 

 

Transatlantic flames (and Chris Buckley's secret)

  

Is BT the Worst ISP in the UK?

 

 

 

Q:  Why the lower case "i" in the customers' nickname "BTi"?
A:  Like "GTi" it once meant "I paid a premium for the top-of-range high-performance version," but eventually came to imply "old-tech, out-of-date design, costs a bomb to run, can't go fast any more and keeps breaking down."


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