On Tuesday 25 July 2006 14:54, Don Gould wrote: > > The users will then get service from a corporate entity which is of > > sufficient size to be able to actually provide a 'dial-tone' level of > > reliability. > > I wish that were true, but it's not. You should be more careful what you say in a public forum such as this. Since Telstra arrived in Christchurch, I have had 2 unscheduled breaks in Cable Internet service, one fixed in about half an hour and the other in about three and a half hours. That's close enough to 99.999% to be a 'dial-tone' level of reliability as far as I'm concerned.
It's certainly very much better than what you will ever achieve with a bundle of s/h computers and wireless links competing with microwave ovens and cordless 'phones on the 2.4GHz band. Apart from the use of Debian as the o/s for the routers in the net, this thread has no content whatsoever about the use of Linux. That makes it unacceptably OFF TOPIC. Don: Please set up your own list server. It's not difficult. Mailman or Majordomo, and a standard mail server such as either Sendmail or Postfix are all you need. If you cannot do it for yourself there are many list members who will, I'm sure, help you. -- CS
