Note to Sympatico One Bill customers

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Sun Jul 16 23:22:13 UTC 2006


On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 12:16:52PM -0400, teddy mills wrote:
> 
> Our Sympatico connection was about to be disconnected unless we paid the 
> $0.00 balance owing. I asked if we should sent in a cheque or payment in 
> the amount of $0.00.
> Actually the $0.00,  was a catch 22.  They would  not  continue the  
> service until paid, and they would accept only a payment to clear the 
> current balance. (0.00)
> And they COULD NOT change the all mighty computer. People eventually 
> prevailed over the computer.

Probably internal round off error.

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