Hello: Does anyone know if MSN.COM is a pseudo-ISP like AOL? I have heard that MSN.COM is just a pseudo-ISP.
The reason I am asking is that my son, who is in the USMC, does a lot of travelling and temporary duties in different places, and he is thinking about subscribing to MSN.COM because that ISP offers a lot of local access numbers for almost everywhere in the US. I have already told him about "Access-4-free.com", but unfortunately that ISP doesn't have any local access numbers for Camp Lejeune, NC, which is his home base where he is normally stationed. I have just finished installing on his computer a real modem and Caldera Open Linux and BasicLinux and Arachne and Nettamer. Also I fixed it up with a dual-boot loader for selecting between Caldera Open Linux and Windows$ 98. On his Windows 98 partition I installed Opera 6.03. All systems work fine on "shentel.net", which is a real ISP. BTW, most of the techies at Shentel don't even know that they are running a real ISP. They think their system supports only Window$! Opera runs much faster than MSIE in Window$, and Linux NetScape Communicator, version 4.51 seems to run faster than either of the above. I know that DOS Arachne would outrun all three of them if I were to have installed her into a ramdrive. My son has a Pentium 333. If my son were to try to connect to MSN.COM, would anyone know if he would have problems getting on with good software or with good operating systems? Do you think that MSN.COM would give him a hard time about his trying to use good operating systems or good browsers or good email client software instead of using Micro$oft software? I should certainly hope that he would not feel forced to use Micro$oft software. Of course we are all very much aware of the anti-competitive practices of Micro$oft. If anyone knows of people who have had problems in trying to get it on with MSN.COM by using good software and good operating systems, please let me know about it. I need to advise my son. TIA, Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
