On Thu, 16 May 2002, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> > [...] It makes me think some serious shaking out needs to
> > happen in the ISP industry, and I'm really wondering if the
> > future of Internet connectivity isn't paying one company to
> > just provide you with a pipe and paying a different company
> > that actually knows something about mail to provide you with
> > mail services.
>
> This is exactly what I do. I fetch my mail from my hosting
> company. My connection is provided by my local clueless cable
> monopoly and I read and post news through news.cis.dfn.de.
Ver.r.ry inter.res.sttinggg -- I do much the same, and
have been doing for a year or three : run pine on an ISP that
gives me a shell account, and ssh (or at need telnet) into it
from DSL at home, or dialup telnet from SIL's machine in TN. I'd
appreciate any further comment (under the net, unless there are
more of us, and on this list) about news.cis.dfn.de.
> Unfortunately, I still PAY my local clueless cable monopoly for
> all of these services.
And i pay Verizon, though news.bellatlantic.net is one of
the servers I connect Pan to.
So we just might have the kernel of a trend here -- maybe
more than the kernel. But it's beyond me to guess just how that's
going to affect list management.
--
RR 'Beartooth' Neuswanger <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com
retiree & linux greenhorn, running Pan 0.11.2 under RH 7.2
Keep in mind that I have no idea what I am talking about.
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