Comcast.net -- An Update

Look at this great building! It's command central -- the brand new Comcast tower in (not near) Philadelphia!

Okay, friends, you've asked how it's going. Here's the update.

1. It has been six days since I emailed Comcast to say that my good email was mostly going into my spam folder. The respondent emailed me back to click each message and indicate "This is not spam" and it would go into my inbox. I wrote back and told her that I knew that, but I would like this to stop; that I would like my good email to go into my inbox. I never head from her again.

2. It has been five days since I discovered that my outgoing email is not being received. Seven days since I had this chat-room conversation (in part):

Renato.25414> I have forwarded the issue to our engineers. They will test your email to check the problem with the server.
Renato.25414> Please wait for the call from our engineers.
Nancy_> That sounds good. Please give me a telephone number that I can call directly to talk to them if I need to do that.
Renato.25414> I apologize but I do not have the phone number of that department. You can chat back to us. Just give the ticket number to the next agent to check the development of the issue.
Renato.25414> I understand how inconvenient this is for you.
Nancy_> You write: Just give the ticket number to the next agent to check the development of the issue. I don't understand what you mean.
Renato.25414> When you chat back to us, just give this ticket number, 118237888, to the next agent.
Renato.25414> He will then check the status of your ticket.
Nancy_> Do you mean it is up to me to come back into this chat room and go through all of this again? I thought you said someone was going to phone me.
Renato.25414> They will call you, Nancy, but if you want to check the status, you can chat back to us.

That was the day that the engineers did not phone as Renato.25414 had offered.

3. It has been four days since I had this chat-room conversation where Cuong told me that Renato.25414 had not told me the truth.

Cuong(Thu Mar 13 09:41:32 EDT 2008)> they are still working on it. it can take up to 3 days. sorry.
Nancy_(Thu Mar 13 09:42:16 EDT 2008)> Renato.25414 promised me that someone would phone me yesterday. No one is receiving email I send. Most of my incoming mail goes into my spam folder. I'm angry. I don't have three more days.
Nancy_(Thu Mar 13 09:42:44 EDT 2008)> I don't like it that no one phoned when I was told someone would phone. I like people to do what they say they are going to do.
Cuong(Thu Mar 13 09:43:56 EDT 2008)> they only call if they need more info. all necessary info is already written into the ticket.
Nancy_(Thu Mar 13 09:44:19 EDT 2008)> That is not what Renato.25414 said. I am angry at the delay.
Cuong(Thu Mar 13 09:46:06 EDT 2008)> sorry that he said that but it's not completely true. they will work on it and only call if extra info is needed.

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Nancy_(Thu Mar 13 09:47:25 EDT 2008)> Please give me a telephone number to call to talk to a supervisor about this.
Cuong(Thu Mar 13 09:47:38 EDT 2008)> 1-888-266-2278

4. It has been four days since I phoned 1-888-266-2278 and spoke with the individual who told me that I should call every day, once a day, in order to get my problem resolved. That was the day I began investigating other internet and cable television providers. My position is this: At my job, if someone asks me to do something, I do it. I have never told someone, "Call me back every day, once a day, and that will make me do it faster." I'd like to keep my job! And, frankly, I like to deal with companies that have the same ethic I do. It isn't my responsibility to nag a company after I've reported a problem; it's the company's responsibility to resolve the problem.

5. It has been three days since day I received (in my spam folder) the email from Mark C. who wanted me to either email him (from my account where no one receives my mail) or phone him. Again, I didn't think it was really my responsibility to stay on top of this; after all, Comcast.net already had two telephone numbers they could call if they really wanted to talk to me.

6. It was about an hour after I posted this that I began receiving a flurry of phone calls from important people and technicians at Comcast.net. Yesterday morning Joe received a call from either Mark C. or someone like him who wanted us to be assured that it was absolutely not true that I should have to call every day, once a day, to get the problem resolved. and that they were working on the problem With each successive contact discrediting the previous one, it's a little bit difficult to have confidence in the current speaker. However, shortly after that, I received a phone call from George who said he was working on the problem and he wanted to give me a phone number to call him on. He asked me to write it down, and I did, but assured him that I had no plans to phone him. I told him I was going out at eleven o'clock and hoped he would be successful in solving the problem. There was a voice mail from him later in the day and one at my office as well.

7. Today I received a phone call from Carl from Comcast.net Security. He went over the problem as he understood it -- noting the problem to be inability to receive the Comcast mail at my school account (actually, as far as I know, no one at any account has received email sent from me at my Comcast account for a week). There are two email addresses on the Comcast account; he understood that the problem was at the other one, the one I never use, not the one that I had reported was causing the problem (drat that English-as-a-fourth-language guy!). He also uttered those words that always fill my heart with dread, "I've never heard of this problem before."

8. But, actually, reader, I'm pleased to report that we are making a little progress. After 20 minutes on the phone with Carl, doing some tests together, he's come up with the hypothesis that it is the signature line in my email that is causing the problem! He is going to research further, but we discovered together that if I delete the signature line, my outgoing email actually does get received. Carl is going to look into finding a way that I can continue to use the signature line and still have my emails received. For the first time in a week, I'm actually optimistic!Reader, if I were you, reading this, I'm sure I'd wonder, "Just why is she so attached to the signature line?" And I'm here to tell you why. Pure and simple, because it says, See my Blog at: http://nancynearphiladelphia.blogspot.com/