On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:56:09PM -0700, Russ Johnson wrote: > >Well, end of an era. > >I got this in my inbox today. > >Called EPUD and told them I'd been a user on efn since Clif ran it under >his stairs oh so many years ago. All I have is a free shell account, and >I really only use it for testing from a remote location. Even that is >once in a blue moon. > >Bottom line. No more free accounts. Even a shell account will be charged >now. It appears a shell account will be $5. > >This was after I asked about the rate structure and was it changing. The >woman on the phone said, "We're trying to not change it." > >Obviously not. > >So, I don't have an efn account any longer. My longest running email >address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is no more. >
The woman on the phone was probably unfamiliar with the legacy free accounts. EFN stopped giving out new ones some time ago, and was urging people who had the old ones to start paying. For added fun, several old staffers, including myself, have received invoices for service. When EPUD came in, we were given to understand that EPUD was taking on EFN's existing service obligations; and one of those service obligations was free service to former staffers, up to a fairly long time limit (mine should run into 2009, and there are others with even longer commitments). I suspect it's going to be entertaining getting them to deliver on this. For a shell account, there are several other providers, e.g. arbornet; i don't know if any of them do dialup shell, but then again EFN's dialup shell was broken for the last six months of EFN's operation. -- On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.--Charles Babbage _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
