IP Communications in Trouble? → Re: Pit of trolling ex-IP employees

This is all so much BS. The person who called DSLReports a "portal" shows how ignorant the people at IP Communications were regarding the net. OK since those of you with the veiled legal threats don't seem to be aware of how the technology actually works, let's take a look.

I am an anonymous poster, my identity is unknown to DSLReports. I live in Texas but I am posting from a generic dialup IP number in Illinois through a free ISP account I got with a made up name and address.

Now I could sit here and make up any kind of BS I wanted and there is not a damn thing anyone can do to identify me. So your threats are meaningless.

This shows a big part of the problem at IP Communications. A complete and total lack of understanding of how the internet works and the internet business in general was prevalent among all the executives, none of which had ever been in an internet business before. They're all old telco hacks, and don't know jack beans about the net. Instead of knowledge and skill they prefer to operate on hazy and meaningless threats to control people.

Why don't you tell us how you are going to identify posters you don't like? All you have is an IP number assigned to a generic dialup pool that is used by a free ISP. Go ahead, tell us how you will use that to identify me so I can be punished for my opinions on IP Communications. I can't wait to hear it.

Please try and not judge an entire company by how someone refers to dslreports on a public anonymous forum. Yes you have dialup this and generic that. You are 1337er than us, here's your certificate.

Tell Ashcroft and the Department of Justice that they can't find you.
I assure you that they could if the mood struck them, given the current state of affairs.
Also, whether or not you faked a name to get an email address is irrelevant. A good tracker could still find you, or at the very least, the computer you wrote your post from.
Anyway, I personally am not affiliated with IP Communication in any way. Not as an employee, ex-employee, board member, or even a stockholder.
What I am however is someone who can identify crap when he smells it.
All I said before is that if you are going to make a claim, be prepared to back it up with evidence. Anything else is hearsay and slander.
If you choose to take another route, be my guest. I won't get in any trouble.

If there are two things I agree with throughout these postings, they are:
1) Too many chiefs and not enough native americans. Hopefully investors will stop looking at resumes and titles, or at least look at the right ones! I've seen other companies fail (as a consultant and not related to the company management) because the first thing they did was go out and hire a bunch of VP's. Why? Because, as stated before, the management are ex-telco hacks and the first thing they do is build a big company hierarchy in a small company startup. Recipe for failure from the get-go! Oh, and let's not forget the destructive ego mongering that takes place - pitiful.

2) Management does not understand the net, nor the working paradigms. I am baffled to walk into Internet technology company and see a mass of valuable office floor space occupied by techs and cubicles. Did it ever occur to management that they could save substantial cash by using their own product and have people work from home or less expensive satellite locations?

But how would they be able to show off the new Beemer?

I am not affiliated with IP Communications in any way, nor do I even live in the southwest, but it sounds like a company that is following the same pattern of bullsh*t baffles brains... I hope the investors clue in.

All political correctness aside, I understand your point.
I agree that some companies take the wrong approach to the conduction of daily operations. Some spend where they should be saving. I have worked for companies like that.
Some come around, some don't. Some want to make a real go of things, others just want to create an entity to be bought out.
My personal feeling is, from an outside perspective of course, is that IP was interested in making a real showing. Management convolution is not new. However, I have spoken with their techs in the field, seen their lineups in the COs, and personally felt that their direction was good.
There's always inside stuff to bitch about. It always happens that no one really minds until they get laid off.
Anyway, I want to see IP come out of this, the same way I want to see Covad survive, independent of SBC.