I'd have to agree. The few times I've been in the various EFN offices
(the old one on Donald/Willamette? And the one on Broadway), it looked
pretty shabby, with the "no case covers, home-built PC" syndrome.

Maybe it's time to start a Eugene chapter of PersonalTelco? ;) We
certainly have the terrain for it.

~ per


On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:54:47 -0700, Kenneth Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> sounds pretty general to me. there are poorly managed small companies
> and well managed large ones. my two cents? case by case...... and in
> this case i have to say that my level of trust for efn has been
> shattered. personally i am loathe to stay with efn even though i have
> been with them since the beginning. it's no longer efn. it's epud. so
> now my criteria are: price, service, reliability. the usual stuff one
> considers when making a purchase in a capitalist system.
> 
> face it fellas. the "bike lane of the information superhighway", it's
> gone, too bad. go smack seth around if you can find him.
> 
> but still...any more ideas on high speed are well appreciated! end of
> september i'm gonna be going there...
> ken
> 
> On Jun 22, 2004, at 11:20 AM, Po Petz wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, perdurabo wrote:
> >
> >> Additionally, if you are concerned about your privacy, you might want
> >> to
> >> give weight to a big corporation, as I am personally aware of local
> >> folks at a few local ISPs who like "examining web/nntp traffic" and
> >> "grepping for interesting keywords" in mail spool files. Sometimes
> >> being
> >> a little random cog in a big corporate machine is a good thing.
> >
> > Which is only to say that casual (*cough*) traffic correlation and
> > analysis done by a large ISP is less likely to be done by someone you
> > know
> > and more likely to be governed and supported by a policy.  A large user
> > pool buys precious little obscurity.
> >
> > -po
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