On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:34:43PM -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Thus spake "Randy Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>We're being hit up by MCI's billing fraud again. > > > >mci's billing problems are gross ineptitude, not fraud. and just > >about every major (and many minor) telco has the same mess. > > "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by > stupidity."
But also be wary of attributing solely to stupidity a consistent pattern of billing "mistakes" which can be explained by pointing at stupid people but which net a lot of money from the folks who don't notice the errors. :) Seems to happen a LOT in this industry, across many vendors, but some more often than others. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)