On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Dean Ridgway wrote: > Greetings Jim, > > >I am considering a QWEST DSL package that is available to me through > >3/31/02. I have two concerns about it. > >1. The ISP is MSN . Does anyone on the list have experience with linux and > >msn as a ISP. As I remember the MSN site has problems with non-microsoft > > This is just not possible, MSN *REQUIRES* you to use a Microsoft OS. If > they detect a non-ms OS (and they do scan) your service will be > terminated. > I find this claim to be highly unlikely, what about mac users etc. MSN may be part of the beast but they aren't THAT stupid. > Once your on MSN, they make it next to impossible to change to a > different service provider. > > MSN only provides ONE EMail box. If you want another one for your wife > (or child) they will require you to purchase another account (at full > price, of course). > > MSN only allows ONE computer to be hooked up, if they detect your home LAN > your service will be terminated. Each computer in your house is expected > to be on a seperate account (at full price, of course). > OK these are a little more realistic, but still, I'd like to see a copy of the actual service agreement.
> MSN MAY (I don't know about this one for sure) require use of Microsoft > Passport, and all the security/privacy issues that brings. > Not this year, Passport is 'required' to use hotmail and a few other MS specific services, but it's uptake in the world at large has been slow, and even though Microsoft has been rushing it into production it's still not necessary for much of what it could be insinuated into. > >2. Because of reliability concerns does it come with a dail in backup > >optioon foor when dsl is down. > If you are in the eugene area you should at least consider efn.org's dsl offerings (full disclosure: efn is my employer) which include both Qwest DSL (you aren't stuck with MSN) and REACHdsl and includes services like access to a unix shell host, spam-filtering, web and file storage space, dial-up access for a backup, plus a local presence. http://www.efn.org/ > I have no information on this. > > /\-/\ Dean Ridgway | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- > ( - - ) InterNet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I took the one less traveled by, > =\_v_/= FidoNet 1:357/1.103 | And that has made all the difference. > CIS 73225,512 | "The Road Not Taken" - Robert Frost. > http://www.peak.org/~ridgwad/ > PGP mail encouraged, finger for key: 28C577F3 2A5655AFD792B0FB 9BA31E6AB4683126 > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
