I think we all need to understand that the average, run-of-the-mill
overnight RSP has nothing to distinguish himself and therefore has no
real success. The way to be successful in business is to remain unique.
Right now, there are a number of RSPs who just have the default scripts
in place and there are some who have put great effort into being
"special". It now looks like OpenSRS will raise the bar on what makes
an RSP unique. For those RSPs who do not offer any additional services
right now, they will gain this ability, but who cares? They will still
not be unique. They will all look the same and offer the same "value-
add" features. For those of us who have spent time and money to become
unique, we must now start looking for alternative ways and invest in
new services. For some of us, I'm sure, the initial investment still
hasn't completely paid off, and that's what's pissing many off here.
To summarize, those who don't currently offer these services really
have nothing to gain because homogenous RSPs cannot compete, while
those of us who are unique and stand above the crowd now must make
another investment in time and money to remain that way. Nobody wins.
It's a bad idea.
-Eric
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lance Woodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:30:59 -0500
Subject: Re: New services: forwarding/DNS?
>Marc Schneiders wrote:
>>
>> And from another perspective: May DNS and redirecting/forwarding run
>> by OpenSRS not have some huge advantages over an RSP doing this on
>> (say) two or three machines himself? Think redundancy, think better
>> connections, think more uptime.
>
>Think losing even more customers. Your customers will become RSPs
>because they will no longer need you. This is a very bad thing.
>
>Thanks,
>Lance Woodson
