[69558] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Wed Apr 14 10:40:55 2004
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 07:40:19 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "David Cantrell" <david@cantrell.org.uk>,
"Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> David Cantrell wrote:
> Sounds to me like you need a new ISP.
> Stephen J. Wilcox:
> Not being happy with the ISP's smarthost is not justification
> to run your own; you should change ISPs..
Always like when people have miracle solutions. Care to suggest just =
_one_ that does it for $36 a month? That includes:
- Static IP
- 384k up
- 1.5m down
- historically very high reliability
- national dial-up account included
- 50 meg attachements authorized
- mailing list traffic (large number of recipients)
I'm all ears?
> Daryl G. Jurbala wrote:
> Reverting to 56k dialup to solve a mail relay
> problem on your only choice for 3MB/512k service
> doesn't exactly sound reasonable.
Thank you.
> Petri Helenius wrote:
> Changing providers when problems arise is a viable
> option when;
> - Available services are more uniform
> - Email addresses are generally portable
> - Switching your local access provider happens in
> less than a business day or two
> And as has been previously stated, most people
> don=B4t have multiple options for local provider
> unless they want to dial up.
Thank you.
Michel.
