I met up with Sue, Joan and Ingrid at Haci Ali’s for lunch. It really is a lovely setting there and at the moment you can buy a 10tl Privilege card and then receive 20% off anything at the hotel. Local drinks are 4tl and then 20% off that, so well worth it.
We had an ‘interloper’ who wanted to join in the pictures but he didn’t join us for lunch! We had a good lunch and a lot to talk about.
The continuing saga of www.thebox.bz! I am writing this here as I know a lot of others use this to download TV programmes. In the evening I again tried to explain that it could not possibly have been me at the date and time I was accused of trying to make another account. I could not believe the messages that followed when all I was doing was explaining that I travel a lot and when visiting friends and relatives, obviously use their ISP.
——– I wrote: ——–
“Thank you for the information. This makes it even more ridiculous as the time stated I was on a cruise ship during which period I had no internet access and the laptop I use was with me.
The IP is Virgin media which we could not have access to on a cruise in the Mediterranean. We have used virgin media at a friends house in the UK so what I believe has happened is that we have been allocated a temporary IP address which at a later date has been allocated to some other Virgin media user.
Or to put it even simpler, I nor any of my family have tried to set up another account.
If you doubt this please look at the link to my blog
http://www.ontheisland2.com/?p=6561″
His reply:
“From Date
bobuk 2011-08-12 08:49:14 (4 hours ago)
So what you are saying is, I am telling lies, oh well, I am passing this matter on to admins, Please do not contact me anymore on this matter.”
I decided I really ought to speak to admins too, so copied the correspondence.
Next message from Bobuk
——– bobuk wrote: ——–
Erm, WTF, I told you I was passing this on to Admins
Private messages are supposed to be just that PRIVATE
Carry on and I will disable your account for masking your IP in the past.
He was simply not listening to me.
I then wrote:
” How are you really able to speak to an old age pensioner in that way?
What are you afraid of admin people seeing may I ask, that is so private…your unsubstantiated accusations of me calling you a liar? I don’t see I have said that anywhere.
Now I am accused of masking my IP.
I was trying to tell you an error has been made, that is all. Your accusations are incorrect.
You were just ignoring facts I have given you and so obviously I would like to contact someone who will listen.
I find your attitude thuggish in a time when London streets appear to be full of people of your ilk who mask their identities and feel they are a law unto themselves.
If it really makes you feel happy upsetting a pensioner in this way then feel free to close my account of many years standing.
Depending upon your actions, your PRIVATE messages may not be as PRIVATE as you had hoped.
All actions have consequences as is being learned in the London courts today.”
Again I tried to explain. I travel a lot and I gave him Extend’s ISP to check out and that it is in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. I shouldn’t have wasted my time because he blocked my messages going to him and also blocked the email when I emailed that. No one to talk to!
So, if you use www.thebox.bz and travel around with your laptop, you may be accused of a similar misdemeanour and they won’t listen to your explanations. BE WARNED!!
I have contributed money to them and was about to again as my ratio had reduced because of the slow speed here. I am now rethinking this decision depending on how I am treated in the future.
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Thought for the Day – “If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything.” ~ Paulo Coelho (Perhaps Bobuk should take note of this quote)