I spoke to a friend who owns an ISP in St. Charles County.  He said that 
dial up is not a profit center, ie it is expensive to offer, and the 
market cannot support the prices someone needs to maintain it.

He mentioned two possibilities:  I local provider, like a university or 
library system that has excess capacity and would support it in exchange 
for supporting some of the line costs,

or

a larger carrier like juno (if they are still around) or aol who would 
support it in exchange for publicity.

To that end, I would recommend that we approach the Saint Louis UNIX 
Users Group.  I have no contacts there as I became inactive some four 
years ago.  However, several of our volunteers are members, I believe.  
They used to offer the service and may still have it.  One warning, I 
believe they have 14K connections.

Long term, we need to check out transitioning to DSL.  ATT offers a low 
end service for about $10  a month.  Others may be willing to match the 
ATT concept.  Perhaps we can approach donors to underwrite the costs of 
subsidizing for one year.

Susan Turk wrote:
> Perhaps the doctor from Cardinal Glennon who gave us the grant could 
> help look into whether SLU would help provide free internet to our grads.
>  
> susan
>
> */Kenneth E Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
>     I don't know.
>
>     */Susan Turk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
>         Would it b possible to find an alternate free internet service
>         provider such as a university?
>
>         */"Kenneth E. Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
>
>             I was having trouble with the Internet Service and called
>             them on the
>             phone. I was informed that the service was discontinued on
>             July 1 due
>             to budgetary restrictions.
>
>             I've had calls from adults about no connection. One
>             computer is in the
>             shop for repairs. I changed the OS from 2000 to Win XP and
>             changed
>             modems and this prompted the call.
>
>             They said they sent me an e-mail two months ago. I never
>             read their
>             e=mail and only use it for testing.
>
>             I'll recruit a kids class for July 14 and make no promises
>             about the
>             Internet. We will tell the adult class about this and
>             offer them their
>             money back and cancel their course. I presume most of them
>             will
>             continue without the Internet.
>
>             There are probably about 100 people with less than 1 year
>             of service.
>
>
>
>
>  

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