>Furthermore, when Melbourne-IT had the monopoly they never cared about
>sending mail outs to warn consumers ( they did mail out in fact, but for
>commercial gain only ), now that their business is at high risk, they
>suddenly get trigger happy with the "mail out" thing..

Yeah yeah ...

>It is easy to suspect that resellers would wet their pants and go ahead with
>any abusive reseller pricing having the threat of " customers kidnapping"
>over their head, that's a good easy way to keep a monopoly ( or try to ), if
>you ask me ...

Oh Fish, quite complaining.  Connect Com Au are the supreme Masters of 
kidnapping customers.  They routinely use to call/e-mail the end users of 
ISPs  who had uplinks with CCA to sell the line "Why deal with XYZ ISP as 
the middle man, when you can deal with us direct."

Where is Stuckey these days?